Actually this is the one and single thing that makes my GAE experience
kind of bittersweet. I am still recommending the platform to friends
and colleagues, but mentioning the cold start problem up front.
Setting this feature/bug to high priority would be most welcome. I
think this is the most
Hi Nacho,
I agree with you. GAE is great in many aspects. The cold-start/timeout
issue is probably my only concern, too. But the sad thing is that is
an absolute killer. Slow response times are a bad thing, but aborting
cron jobs because of virtual server start issues is unacceptable, at
least in
Hi Nacho,
I agree with you. GAE is great in many aspects. The cold-start/timeout
issue is probably my only concern, too. But the sad thing is that is
an absolute killer. Slow response times are a bad thing, but
exceptions in the cron jobs because of virtual server start issues is
unacceptable, at
I tell people to give appengine a try if they're using Python, but
that Java support isn't mature enough yet (for exactly this reason). I
also get the impression that Java start up times are getting slower,
or at least more varied; though I haven't been keeping stats over
time.
I'm sure google
