Google is a bit schizophrenic right now IMHO. Its pricing is enterprise, yet it still desires the startup developers' halo (appealing to their desire for high-productivity). So GAE product managers have been riding the backs of startup developers who chafe at the enterprise-level pricing while waiting for enterprise CIOs to lose their fear of GAE's PaaS lock-in. Recent lowering for SSL monthly costs (and posts by new GAE PMs) suggests some internal debate. You may or may not be in the final product's pricing schema. Unfortunately I believe these are the pains we suffer as a very intelligent set of engineers gain an understanding of value-added services (as opposed to Amazon who makes no mistakes re: providing value-added services). Remember: Google is a great adwords/adsense company trying to expand to value-added services. GAE is pretty new for them.
On Tuesday, October 9, 2012 10:40:42 AM UTC-7, James Gilliam wrote: > > The main point I am making is offsets are useless because reading all > records from 0 to offset costs the same as reading a a record from +offset. > If GAE didn't charge for the records being skipped, it would be useful to > use offsets. I suspect the only reason they charge for skipping records is > because they cannot locate the nth record without reading them all. This > suggests a defect in their design that has nothing to do with entity > database. > > I realize that getting GAE to fix this issue is impossible. However, the > list of GAE issues continues to mount. For example, not getting bounces on > mail has been an outstanding issue for three years even though the > documentation clearly says it is supported. Another example is the > horrible cost for secure domains and offering a 'cheaper' alternative that > only works in limited situations. I am just getting tired of the gae > issues and they clearly don't care. > > On Monday, October 8, 2012 11:07:45 AM UTC-7, James Gilliam wrote: >> >> I discovered that GAE charges you for skipping entities in Datastore with >> OFFSET. So, if you want to retrieve 1 record at offset 10, you pay for >> reading 11. >> >> This makes OFFSET expensive and WORTHLESS ... >> >> Offset should never be mentioned in the documentation without a footnote >> that says you can't afford to use it. >> >> Kinda pissed about this. >> > -- 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/-/GTf2QGpKwXUJ. 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.
