Hi Jacob, Can you tell me more about why you choose using backends instead of modules?
I only migrated to modules because they enter in the discounted instance hours. thanks rafa On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Jacob Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > We debated moving a service that needed scaling control over to GCE and > throttling it via scripts. Right now, we are using backends and a script to > control them. > > > On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Brandon Wirtz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> We are looking at if GCE would be a win for us. The auto-scaling has been >> huge for us. We burst a lot. A module might use 400 hours one day and 1600 >> the next, and have most of that be in 3-4 hours. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto: >> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Rafael >> *Sent:* Saturday, March 1, 2014 1:28 PM >> *To:* google-appengine >> *Subject:* RE: [google-appengine] Show and Tell: Plexi Voice a Windows >> Phone 8 App with AppEngine backend. >> >> >> >> If crawling is your concern, have you ever considered leaving only >> crawling on appengine and using GCE for the rest? >> >> On Feb 28, 2014 2:59 PM, "Brandon Wirtz" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> No "hacks". We didn't plan to run NLTK forever. >> >> We have peaks and valleys and no 4 boxes would not handle the amount of >> crawling we do. >> >> We wouldn't have stuck with the platform if we thought it was slowing >> down development. It saved us an Infrastructure guy which was huge for a >> startup. Over 2 years that buys a LOT of hosting. >> >> Also with AppEngine we haven't had to worry much about downtime. The >> outages we have had were reasonably short, and I don't have to get out of >> bed to deal with. >> >> >> >> >> >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto: >> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Rafael >> *Sent:* Friday, February 28, 2014 3:47 PM >> *To:* google-appengine >> *Subject:* Re: [google-appengine] Show and Tell: Plexi Voice a Windows >> Phone 8 App with AppEngine backend. >> >> >> >> It sounds like a lot of hacks to make it "fit" in appengine. >> >> >> >> Can you tell me if you would have developed and maintained this in half >> of the time if you had just 4 boxes running with 64gb of ram? >> >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Brandon Wirtz <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> We just put out our Open Beta of Plexi Voice. A GoogleNow/Siri like >> Conversational Search product. Yes it is for Windows Phone. Yes, it uses >> Google AppEngine for all of its backend. >> >> >> http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/plexivoice/9c09f697-657d-4613-ae67-7e787121d0a4 >> >> >> >> The code is ours, full stack, written in Python. We aren't entirely >> converted to modules, but pretty close. We do some cross app calls, but try >> to do as much as possible as Modules. >> >> We'd move to doing everything in Modules but the cost of migrating data >> from one App to the other would be like $10k and it isn't worth it at this >> point. >> >> >> >> Several people in the past have asked about using Python's Natural >> Language Tool Kit on AppEngine. 2 years ago we did make a version that >> "fit" in an F4 instance, but we don't use that anymore, we have our own NLP >> Engine, that will run in an F1. >> >> >> >> For the most part all of our code runs in an F2. Some of our bigger >> things related to large dictionaries doesn't fit, so we run F2's instead of >> F1s. >> >> We average about 2000 instance hours a day. >> >> We have 2 Terabytes of DataStore. >> >> For our search engine we crawl about 2 Million pages a day of the >> Internet. >> >> -- >> 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. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> >> -- >> 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. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> -- >> 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. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> -- >> 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. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> -- >> 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. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > > > -- > Jacob Taylor > Co-Founder and CTO, Kahuna > (650) 302-1864 > www.useKahuna.com <http://www.usekahuna.com/> > http://www.linkedin.com/in/thejacobtaylor > > -- > 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. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. 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