So there are different schools of thoughts on this issue. There are those of us who think that App Engine should be as bare metal as possible,there are those of us who think App Engine should provide every single possible API, and there are people who argue for various positions in between.
I personally think this makes sense as a configurable option or a library, but then that requires that we have a better place to surface App Engine libraries. There are a lot of great libraries today, but even now, it's not obvious to developers how to find Googler maintained projects like App Engine Mapper (http://code.google.com/p/appengine-mapreduce/) or the Pipeline API (http://code.google.com/p/appengine-pipeline/). Don't even get me started on non-Googler maintained projects like Fantasm ( http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/fantasm.html). Ikai Lan Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine Blog: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/app_engine Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/appengine On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:25 PM, David Keyes <[email protected]> wrote: > Been using gae/j for a while now. One big missing piece IMO is a service > that would allow me to manage global distributed counters. Yes I know that > there are patterns for doing this (e.g. sharding), but it is such a common > use case that I think a highly optimized service would be ideal. > > The perfect solution would allow me to have read-only access to the > counters via the datastore. > > Thoughts? > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
