[google-appengine] Re: Increasing task queue quotas

2009-11-17 Thread Julian Namaro
I'm not sure about what you want to do but just a thought: have you considered Amazon Elastic MapReduce ? It's sure doable with task queues but you're likely to encounter various limitation problems as you cite. On Nov 18, 1:46 am, James Cooper wrote: > Hi, > > I'm evaluating GAE suitability for

[google-appengine] Re: Increasing task queue quotas

2009-11-18 Thread James Cooper
Hi there, Yes, I've considered Amazon's offering, but would prefer to keep the entire system on GAE if possible to reduce complexity. thanks, -- James On Nov 17, 7:13 pm, Julian Namaro wrote: > I'm not sure about what you want to do but just a thought: have you > considered Amazon Elastic MapR

[google-appengine] Re: Increasing task queue quotas

2009-11-18 Thread James Cooper
Hi, My primary concern is throughput, not cost. I would be happy to pay more to gain higher concurrency and higher throughput. If a customer uploads a list with 100,000 items to process, I would like to burst to some upper limit of concurrency (higher than 20 qps at least) and process the list a

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Increasing task queue quotas

2009-11-18 Thread djidjadji
Is your processing not possible with the deferred module added in 1.2.5 http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/deferred.html If you launch many tasks to process the uploads you waste a lot of CPU retrieving the data needed. With the deferred method you run for about 30 sec, then store the stat