Jon Watte wrote:
> I agree. The GAE team claims that GAE scales. Do we just take their
> word for it?
I wouldn't.
> Or is there some independent verification we can perform
> on ourselves that we can point at and say "just run XYZ.py and you'll
> see it for yourself" ?
Nope. As I said before, it's much more difficult than that.
Ultimately, the only way you can verify if any solution will scale the
way you want it to is to run a full scale test.
> For example, Sun claims that Project Darkstar will let you scale your
> massively multiplayer server infrastructure.
Well, Google App Engine would be a terrible place to serve most
massively multiplayer games. I hope that's not what got you
interested in GAE.
> If you're about to develop a real application to be used by real
> people, knowing whether a vendor's claims about scalability are
> actually applicable to your technology is a pretty useful metric.
Which is why your test case needs to be realistic, otherwise it won't
be applicable to any real applicaiton. And no single test case can be
applicable to all applications.
>Sincerely,
>
>jw
Ah, it is you.
Ross Ridge
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