You can pull from task queues instead of having them push, right? That could help a lot where task queues are the source of instance spin up. I'd even be happy to dedicated a back-end to task queue pull-work if it was necessary - at least that is totally under your control.
On Sep 3, 5:05 pm, Joshua Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > I also identified task queues as the source of my excessive instances. I > suspect this is a quite common issue, and together with datastore access bugs > (sorry, but you never should have written it like that) like the one you > found, are conspiring to make a lot of these crazy new billing numbers. > > I think a lot of people just need to take a deep breath and look at their > apps the way you did. It's certainly a lot less work than migrating to EC2. > > On Sep 3, 2011, at 6:16 AM, Emlyn wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > I don't think I've posted here before, but I've been an appengine user > > for a while now (closing on 2 years? Is that even possible?). And like > > many, I had a rude shock with the new pricing (going from $0.50/day to > > $50/day). > > > However, I dug into what I'm actually being charged for, and I think > > it's all actually in my control to sort out, and that in itself is > > sort of fascinating. I wrote a long blog post on this, which people > > might find interesting. > > > The Amazing Story Of Appengine And The Two Orders Of Magnitude > >http://point7.wordpress.com/2011/09/03/the-amazing-story-of-appengine... > > > I'd be really grateful for feedback, especially if I've gotten > > anything wildly wrong. I haven't actually made any of the changes that > > I've foreshadowed in the post, that's for the next day or two, and > > I'll write a followup article on how it goes. > > > Thanks in advance for having a look! > > > -- > > Emlyn > > >http://my.syyn.cc- Synchonise Google+, Facebook, WordPress and Google > > Buzz posts, > > comments and all. > >http://point7.wordpress.com- My blog > > Find me on Facebook and Buzz > > > -- > > 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 > > athttp://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.
