On Jul 21, 5:17 pm, "Drake" <[email protected]> wrote: > unicorn land where you traded having nice friendly donkey's who will put up > with what ever shit you feed them and still pull your wagon, for a flying > unicorn that shoots rainbows out of its ass but requires that you don't just > give it a sugar cube every now and then, but that it is raw organic sugar > fed to it by beautiful naked virgins. In exchange you can go farther, > faster, and you don't have to clean up poo off the floor. These are the > trades you make for living in Unicorn land.
I like this visual. If someone puts it on a coffee cup or t-shirt as a GAE promotion, I'd buy it. Seriously, someone do this. On Jul 21, 9:21 pm, Prashant Hegde <[email protected]> wrote: > Here is a counter example. We are a small app with peak traffic of 1 request > per second. We use java. No frameworks. We use jdo, guice. Startup time 20 > seconds. Average request latency under 500 ms. We have been on appengine > close to 2 years. Right now we are able to serve our users with one instance > without exposing them to loading requests ( almost zero ) This isn't a counterexample, for the reason that you mentioned in the first sentence: you can serve everything off one instance. The original poster needs multiple instances, and to be able to scale as load changes. If you're not loading new instances, then startup time is pretty much irrelevant; you can start an instance once, then your users will never see a cold instance. This entire discussion is about cold instances. -- 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.
