Thanks Ryan, that's kind of reassuring. But just to nitpick if I might...it seems apps that are presented as use cases for breaking the 500qps limit have only needed higher capacity relatively temporarily (e.g. the obama questions app). And the wording on the quota increase form sort of makes it sounds like you're applying for accommodation of temporary increases in load (i.e. it asks for "Cause of traffic spike", suggesting it's 'only' a spike that needs to be dealt with).
But what if your app needed this capacity on a more persistent/ permanent basis - would this be OK too? Are there apps doing this already? I'm presuming yes...but it would be nice to maybe hear it more explicitly :) Thanks for your reply, On Feb 16, 1:13 am, ryan <[email protected]> wrote: > hi peter! thanks for the post. > > On Feb 15, 10:49 am, peterk <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I've sort of been 'visioneering' some web apps that I might implement > > on GAE, and as I am inclined to do, I've been thinking about the best- > > case scenarios, and scalability to that point. > > > I note that for billed apps, there's a request limit of 43m requests > > per day - calculated from a limit of 500 requests per second. > > there is a soft cap, but it's definitely not a fundamental limit of > the platform, as we explain on the quota increase form: > > http://code.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=AppEngineC.... > > we've had plenty of apps scale far beyond 500 qps. the obama > administration's "open for questions," for example: > > http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009/04/google-developer-products-help... > > and it was one of the smaller ones. -- 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.
