Here's my take on what David is really asking: Is there any black box test we as users can design, right now, to prove app engine can handle higher loads than a commodity PC.
While it may not be super useful, it is an interesting thought experiment. For all we know, each of our apps is running on a PC in marzia's basement :) Does the app engine team share any stories they can share about internal load tests they've done, and how many millions of simultaneous requests their app was serving? On Nov 7, 8:49 pm, Ross Ridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Underhill wrote: > > Fair enough -- so would a better test mean a database with many fewer > > rows? > > No. > > > Then the reqs/sec would have to be pretty high to stress out > > the PC doing simple queries ... but still seems like it should be > > possible in principle. > > I don't see why you think testing the scalability of a single PC is > useful. It will hit some limit or another and then start dropping > requests. That means any solution limited to using just one PC has > *no* scalability. > > If you're really asking if it would be better to host your application > on a PC in your basement or on Google App Engine, then it depends on > what your application does. If your application needs to scale to > handle an unbounded number of requests then GAE is likely to be the > better choice. If your application is compute heavy or needs to > perform a complex series of queries and updates then GAE may not be > able to handle a single request. > > Ross Ridge --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
