At this point, Google Cloud Storage integration with GAE is .... experimental... Whatever that means! In other words, the interface is changing. Not sure I want to deal with that. (I will look at it more closely though) Thanks,
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 11:40 AM, alex <[email protected]> wrote: > Have you guys ever considered Google Cloud Storage? We used to use S3 > too, a couple years back, but eventually transfered all assets and > whatnot to GCS for various reasons. It's an awesome service. > > https://developers.google.com/storage/ > > On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Alexander Trakhimenok > <[email protected]> wrote: > > We've implemented storing images to S3 from GAE for > > http://www.myclasses.org/ and pretty happy with results. > > > > There is a 2 factors problem with serving images from GAE's blob-store: > > > > Generation of get_serving_url takes a while. If you have many images to > > serve on a single page (e.g. list if classes and their avatars in our > case) > > it can really slow your code and as result cost you money. So you don't > want > > to do it on every page rendering. > > We tried to cache the URL returned by get_serving_url() but it occurred > it > > expires in a while (may be days or weeks) and there is no clear > > understanding when exactly and how to invalidate the URLs or HTML of > pages > > we generate & cached in DB. > > > > With S3 we can have static & stable URL what is perfect for us. And in > > conjunction with CloudFrount it works really fast - we see noticeable > > improvements in client pages rendering by browsers. > > > > We used "boto" library to work with S3 that is not coupled with Django in > > any way (as far as I know) so you can try it as well. > > > > Good luck, > > > > Alex > > Founder & Lead Dev @ Petamatic.com > > > > On Tuesday, 4 December 2012 16:32:31 UTC-4, Emmanuel Mayssat wrote: > >> > >> They are several discussion about storing images in database (blob) > versus > >> filesystem (s3). > >> Did anyone implement an app on GAE with an image interface on S3? > >> > >> I am not even sure where to start.... > >> > >> Django has a > >> http://django-storages.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html > >> but I use webapp2.... > >> > >> Thanks for any info, > > > > -- > > 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/-/GCtIWJ99pIcJ. > > > > 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. > > -- 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.
