Hi Dennis -

I am using an architecture similar to what you describe.  Rather than
use a separate server to do the pinging, I use client-side JS to do
this dirty work.  You need to have a fairly steady stream of users for
this technique to be reliable.  :)

Ben



On Dec 9, 9:27 pm, Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm architecting my system to workaround the limited write ability in
> each gae request.
>
> I'd like to use task queues (as in issue 
> 109http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=109),
> but that feature is not implemented yet.
>
> I'm thinking about using the following:
> -the initial GAE request accepts the user's request and queues the
> task into Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) using a call to an
> external url.
> -a hosted system (external to GAE) polls the SQS queues.
> -when the hosted system finds a task, it makes API calls into GAE to
> do the actual asynchronous work inside GAE and it's datastore.
>
> Just wondering if anyone else has used this type of architecture (or
> thought about it) and what their experience / opinion is.
>
> The only post I could find about using Amazon's queues 
> is:http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/msg/86368530077bc548
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