Re: RE: [google-appengine] Re: 1.5 improvements Make me less scared of Pricing

2011-05-16 Thread Dennis
Thanks for the tips, Brandon! A quick question: those "scratchpad" datastores are python dicts, right? We need to be aware that the dicts are not coordinated across instances so they may have stale data (which might be ok depending on the app). Just want to make sure I understand your sugges

Re: [google-appengine] Re: 1.5 improvements Make me less scared of Pricing

2011-05-15 Thread Tim
On Saturday, May 14, 2011 8:54:54 PM UTC+1, Robert Kluin wrote: > > If the data doesn't get updated, using the blobstore might be a good > idea. As I recall, you can't update a blob. So if the data changes > it may not be the best idea. Of course, it really all depends on the > app / usage.

Re: [google-appengine] Re: 1.5 improvements Make me less scared of Pricing

2011-05-14 Thread Robert Kluin
If the data doesn't get updated, using the blobstore might be a good idea. As I recall, you can't update a blob. So if the data changes it may not be the best idea. Of course, it really all depends on the app / usage. I store serialized dicts / lists in text / blob properties quite often. It w

RE: [google-appengine] Re: 1.5 improvements Make me less scared of Pricing

2011-05-14 Thread Brandon Wirtz
.com [mailto:google-appengine@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Tim Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2011 1:42 AM To: google-appengine@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [google-appengine] Re: 1.5 improvements Make me less scared of Pricing I suspected that might be the case, but if I have a few minutes to spa

Re: [google-appengine] Re: 1.5 improvements Make me less scared of Pricing

2011-05-14 Thread Tim
I suspected that might be the case, but if I have a few minutes to spare sometime I might try it out. My startup and servicing costs is pretty minimal - I've got a one-page-webapp and most of my calls are just AJAX calls to load and update data, so it's typically just object to JSON and back ag

Re: [google-appengine] Re: 1.5 improvements Make me less scared of Pricing

2011-05-13 Thread Robert Kluin
Hey Tim, That will (probably) just stop your module being cached, making it respond more slowly to requests, increasing the number of instances needed to service concurrent requests. I think you're still better off to try to make instance startup and request servicing as efficient as possible.

RE: [google-appengine] Re: 1.5 improvements Make me less scared of Pricing

2011-05-13 Thread Brandon Wirtz
I'm happy to hear explanations. I didn't change the code I just did an update withouth changing version. -Original Message- From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com [mailto:google-appengine@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of nickmilon Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 2:58 PM To: Google App Engine Su

Re: [google-appengine] Re: 1.5 improvements Make me less scared of Pricing

2011-05-13 Thread Vinuth Madinur
And it would be great to have different pricing for idle instance hours vs active instance hours. Because my app is letting other apps execute, while blocking a little memory. On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Vinuth Madinur wrote: > Plus: > > 1. 15 minutes minimum granularity. > 2. Tiered Instan

Re: [google-appengine] Re: 1.5 improvements Make me less scared of Pricing

2011-05-13 Thread Vinuth Madinur
Plus: 1. 15 minutes minimum granularity. 2. Tiered Instance pricing. My app consumes about 40 -80 MB, but I'll be paying for 128 MB 0r 256 MB minimum. 3. It's not like they can't meter these or aren't metering these. They already have the numbers. But they wont price things based on it, which suck

RE: [google-appengine] Re: 1.5 improvements Make me less scared of Pricing

2011-05-12 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Hmmm... The only possible explanation is that Greg just wanted to shut me up about instances and python, so he hacked the dashboard to lie when I upgraded my code next... (When there is no plausible explanation propose an implausible one) -Original Message- From: google-appengine@googleg