[google-appengine] Re: Task Queues and Asynchronous Processing TODAY

2008-12-11 Thread Mahmoud
Yup. We do exactly what Ben describes. On Dec 10, 9:26 am, Ben Nevile [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Dennis - I am using an architecture similar to what you describe.  Rather than use a separate server to do the pinging, I use client-side JS to do this dirty work.  You need to have a fairly

[google-appengine] Re: Task Queues and Asynchronous Processing TODAY

2008-12-10 Thread kaspars...@gmail.com
You might achieve this kind of functionality (and more) using AppRocket http://code.google.com/p/approcket Although it currently doesn't have a generic queuing service built in, it's very easy to simulate. Just setup an entity in AE for asynchronous tasks, for example QueueTask and have it

[google-appengine] Re: Task Queues and Asynchronous Processing TODAY

2008-12-10 Thread Ben Nevile
Hi Dennis - I am using an architecture similar to what you describe. Rather than use a separate server to do the pinging, I use client-side JS to do this dirty work. You need to have a fairly steady stream of users for this technique to be reliable. :) Ben On Dec 9, 9:27 pm, Dennis [EMAIL