On Thursday, June 6, 2013 4:27:59 AM UTC-5 wrote: > > My app is using a in-memory list that is accessed very often by font-end > clients, my solution before was to use a static list. After gaining more > info on GAE I know now that this wont be good because each instance would > have it's own list (right?).
It depends on how you architect your application. Written correctly, all instances can share a data list. On Thursday, June 6, 2013 4:27:59 AM UTC-5 wrote: > > So, are backends the best fit for that? There's nothing wrong with frontend instances for this job. Backends are more for long-running processes. Before anyone can give you a definitive answer, you need to give some more information about this problem. For instance, how many elements are in this list? What is the size of each element? How are you moving this list from the server to the client? How often does this list change? You said this list was "static", so I assume this list won't be changing very often. In that case, you can use the memcache/datastore as Thiago suggested: Put each list element as an entity in the datastore, and set a cron to periodically pull a copy of the list and store it into memcache. Then your front end instances can pull the data from memcache/datastore. This way all your instances will share the same list. If this list is changing very rarely, what you can do is store it as a file in a Google Cloud Storage bucket, and configure the bucket as a website ( https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/website-configuration ). Whenever you need to change the list, your application on AppEngine can update the file: https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/xml-api-overview . You're also saving money this way since there's much less instance hours incurred. ----------------- -Vinny P Technology & Media Advisor Chicago, IL My Go side project: http://invalidmail.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
