Use a time stamp in the request, and Edgecache can cache the request. That will let you serve massive numbers of users pretty cheap.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Johnson Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2012 10:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [google-appengine] Re: viable?: using frequent ajax polling of cloud storage for chat webapp? also, would it be possible to implement secure private chat rooms? perhaps by encrypting the gcs buckets? On Monday, June 18, 2012 1:21:38 AM UTC-4, Johnson wrote: google cloud storage (gcs) advertises strong read-after-write consistency, so i thought it would provide a cheap way to implement a chatroom webapp on gae. frequent polling of gae would be expensive, so it would work like this: when a user says something in the chatroom, the browser sends the msg to gae, which updates a json-formattted file on gcs. all users constantly poll gcs (once per second?) to see if anything has been said in the chatroom. would this be a viable solution? sufficiently cheap/fast? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/1-8I1djwFs0J. 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.
