Ikai, you are right - I don't need a counter, a sequence of unique and growing numbers will do. And I think I can make a scalable numeric sequence by combining a sharded counter with a memcache counter (and an occasional transaction). I'll post my solution when it's done.
MG On Dec 29, 1:48 pm, "Ikai Lan (Google)" <[email protected]> wrote: > What are you building? With distributed systems, it can be tricky to do some > things. A single, scalable, atomic counter is an implementation for a > solution, not a solution to a problem. There may be an alternate > implementation that'll make your life easier but solve the problem at hand. > > -- > Ikai Lan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en.
