[google-appengine] Re: Some questions about scalability and feasibility (i.e. trying to do due diligence :))

2010-02-16 Thread peterk
Thanks Ryan, that's kind of reassuring. But just to nitpick if I might...it seems apps that are presented as use cases for breaking the 500qps limit have only needed higher capacity relatively temporarily (e.g. the obama questions app). And the wording on the quota increase form sort of makes it

[google-appengine] Re: Some questions about scalability and feasibility (i.e. trying to do due diligence :))

2010-02-16 Thread peterk
That's good enough for me :) Now off to build my 4000 qps monster ;) Cheers, On Feb 16, 7:18 pm, ryan ryanb+appeng...@google.com wrote: On Feb 16, 4:58 am, peterk peter.ke...@gmail.com wrote: But what if your app needed this capacity on a more persistent/ permanent basis - would this be

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Some questions about scalability and feasibility (i.e. trying to do due diligence :))

2010-02-16 Thread Ikai L (Google)
Go for it! What's great about App Engine and capacity is that we'll grow with you. It's unlikely you get the same amount of traffic all hours of the day, so you only pay for 4000 QPS the hours during the day you're hitting that - the rest of the time, we'll spin down unused instances. On Tue, Feb

[google-appengine] Re: Some questions about scalability and feasibility (i.e. trying to do due diligence :))

2010-02-15 Thread ryan
hi peter! thanks for the post. On Feb 15, 10:49 am, peterk peter.ke...@gmail.com wrote: I've sort of been 'visioneering' some web apps that I might implement on GAE, and as I am inclined to do, I've been thinking about the best- case scenarios, and scalability to that point. I note that for