Very amusing summary of GAE

On Dec 7, 2:28 pm, "Brandon Wirtz" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Your instance runs on Hardware you can't see, a software platform you can't
> buy and accesses a MemCache and DataStore that are proprietary.
>
> Are you running iX86? Or AMDx86?  32 bit or 64 Bit? Risc? Itanium? Arm?
>
> Asking how many cycles you have is kind of silly.
>
> If you want to go Faster Serial, optimize your code.
>
> If you want to go faster parallel crank up the number of instances.
>
> Your Measure of speed should be, Time Per Request of my Fastest, Average,
> Mode, and Slowest Type.  Compare those with the QoS you would get on another
> platform and decide if you are limited by the platform or your coding.
>
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Niklas Rosencrantz
> Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 2:21 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [google-appengine] Resource allocation to deployments?
>
> Hi
> How much memory and CPU gets allocated to a deployed instance of my
> application? Does it totally depend on usage so that the instance is
> completely shut down and doesn't use anything if there are no requests? What
> is then the minimum required to serve a request (in my case python) and can
> we buy a speed increase or are we forced to optimize a slow script and maybe
> it can't get optimized so we'd have to change our logic?
>
> I think one instance defaults to 128 MB and 600 MHZ which is a rather
> restrained enviornment about half what used for PHP minimum and 1/4 of what
> I used for Java in a virtual Linux server.
>
> We're very happy with the GAE features and how the upgrades, fixes and
> features are going for our development.
> We're also happy with the new pricing which lowered our costs in some cases.
>
> We did not encounter a bug that we could not fix or workaround but there
> might be a new urllib2 bug in the 1.6.1 that we investigated
> (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8411622/why-this-error-from-urllib)
>
> Thank you
> Nick Rosencrantz
>
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