First, when I log into appengine.google.com, it still says "this is a preview release" with the "preview release" part being in bright red letters... so.. take that to mean what you want.
Second, you haven't mentioned what exactly the code for your index page does? What is it loading? How much caching are you doing? Caching isn't just for entities from the datastore.. you can and should also cache html or page templates or whatever else you can.. Also, you shouldn't dump a bunch of imports at the top of your code.. only import specific modules as needed within the code. Though, it's hard to make suggestions without knowing exactly how your code works. (You may be doing all of the above things.. or feel like you are doing them.) A lot of the annoying restrictions that people complain about, to me, are inherent limitations to having a highly scalable infrastructure.. the restrictions are there to force you to learn to code (from the beginning) for the App Engine environment. Granted, your issue may just be with intermittent but slow cold start times.. is the cold start reasonable in general for you.. but occasionally hits that frustrating point? (Again, hard to know anything without knowing how your code is structured.) On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Anders <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm using Python. And only Python's standard library that's in GAE. My > guess is that the cold start problem is similar in the Java version. > > The cold start time has improved but now and then loading the index > page takes frustratingly long time. That's poor quality for both end > users and developers. > > On Feb 20, 7:21 pm, Brandon Thomson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Are you using python or java? what is your framework? > > > > On Feb 20, 1:26 am, Anders <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > This has been discussed before but the problem still remains. It seems > > > that GAE is no longer in a preview release version (as far as I can > > > see). Having a cold start initiation time of 10 seconds is a major > > > bottleneck. > > > > > Imagine if it took 10 seconds to load for example the Google Search > > > index page in your browser. It doesn't sound like a very long time, > > > but today that kind of load time for an index page is very poor > > > performance. > > > > > I understand that GAE cannot at the moment hold all applications hot/ > > > warm, because that would require a lot more resources I assume. But I > > > think the cold start time needs to be brought down to a maximum of > > > around 2 seconds. > > > > > It actually doesn't matter in many cases if an application is used by > > > millions of users every day or only seldom by a few people. The load > > > time for webpages is usually extremely important regardless the amount > > > of traffic to a website. Each user's experience counts. > > -- > 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]<google-appengine%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- 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.
