Great to finally get official about the Roadmap....
On Oct 24, 8:01 am, Jeffrey Rosen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for clarifying this! I am especially relieved to see the
> datastore import/export and the billing option announced. I am also
> relieved to see recent advances like the HTTPS release which now lets
> us add things like Google Checkout integration. As someone who runs
> their entire business (http://www.wolfire.com) on Google App Engine,
> here are a few things that I would like to see, for what it's worth:
>
> - The latency for using your own domain. The appspot url is
> distributed around the world and extremely fast. We're talking 2 -
> 8ms in the bay area. However, once you put your app on your own
> domain, that latency goes to ~100 ms to 200ms in the bay area. Still
> "decent", but slower than what a typical web host would provide. I
> would be interested to hear what Google is planning to do about this.
>
> Here is the
> ticket:http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=531
>
> For what it's worth, the reason I signed up for this service in the
> first place is because I was so impressed with the CDN aspect of the
> service and the low latency around the world of my pages. I don't
> want to tell you guys about your own business, but IMHO, this CDN
> aspect of GAE is one of the few things that makes Google unique from
> other web hosting providers and Google is one of the few companies out
> there that has the necessary infrastructure to pull it off. It's a
> shame that GAE isn't reaching its full potential in this regard.
>
> From what I hear, it's internal bureaucracy with the Google Apps team
> handling the DNS routing and the GAE handling the other aspect of the
> service, but whatever it is, I am sure you guys can solve it.
>
> It's just really frustrating because when I was initially testing it
> in jeffr.appspot.com, the site is so fast, it is literally
> instantaneous. Like you click the link, and it is already there.
> Even people who aren't tech savvy would comment independently on how
> it was the fastest site they had ever seen, but now wolfire.com is
> actually slower than it was on our original dedicated server.
>
> - Support for naked domains. It's annoying that I have to redirect
> people who go to wolfire.com towww.wolfire.com. If anything, I'd
> rather do it the other way around. This also adds to the latency,
> ruining our chance for an instantaneous load like on
> appspot.http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=777
>
> - Some fixes for small misc bugs and "features". For example, it is
> impossible to set a display name on emails. This is a simple best
> practice to make your email look like it was from "Wolfire Games"
> rather than [EMAIL
> PROTECTED]://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=677
>
> Another example is how GAE doesn't let you set cookies on a 301
> redirect.http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=784
>
> I am sure these are tiny bugs that could be corrected in less than a
> day of an engineer's work yet they are actually quite important to GAE
> users (despite the small number of stars). Basically, I would like a
> little more transparency on what the GAE is doing. It would be cool
> to maybe allocate a week to just fix all of the low hanging fruit bugs
> like these ones rather than spending months working on adding Java
> support or HTTPS support exclusively. I can't really comment on what
> Google is doing, because I simply don't know, but that is what it
> feels like to me.
>
> A few other things to throw out there; a task queue so we can get rid
> of the third party server regular http ping hack and full text search.
>
> Sorry if this post sounds negative. I love GAE and don't regret
> choosing it as my platform for a minute, but that's my feedback as
> someone who works with it every day. :)
>
> On Oct 23, 5:45 pm, "Marzia Niccolai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > Many of you have expressed interest in learning about what's coming next for
> > Google App Engine, and although we've often talked about features we plan on
> > supporting, we've decided to publish a
> > roadmap<http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/roadmap.html>along with
> > our documentation. The roadmap can be found
> > here:http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/roadmap.html
>
> > It should be noted that while we're working hard on these features,
> > development schedules do slip at times, and the dates below may change.
> > We'll do our best to update this roadmap as our engineers continue
> > development.
>
> > Without further ado, here it is:
>
> > 10/08 - 3/09
> > * Service for storing and serving large files
> > * Datastore import and export utility for large datasets
> > * Billing: developers can pay for more resource usage
> > * Support for a new runtime language
> > * Uptime monitoring site
>
> > And, for reference, here is the release timeline since April:
>
> > * 10/16/08 - HTTPS support for *.appspot.com
> > * 10/14/20 - Logs for Admin Console usage, and regex filtering for
> > application logs
> > * 9/18/08 - CPU usage details added to logs and dashboard, zipimport,
> > zipserve, memcache viewer
> > * 8/22/08 - Multi-entity group batch writes and deletes
> > * 7/24/08 - Logs export capability, more apps for everyone!
> > * 5/28/08 - Memcache and Image Manipulation API, Open Signups
> > * 5/15/08 - App Engine Launcher for Mac
> > * 4/8/08 - App Engine Limited Preview Release launches!
>
> > -Marzia
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