Google doesnt give you magically powerful computers. What they do is give you access to *lots* and *lots* of relatively slow computers. Able to work in parallel.
Scale Out, rather than Scale Up. Its possibly caching would be even more important on App Engine. But App Engine can give you access to *very* big caches. If by I/O you mean lots of small concurrent requests (rather than few big), then AppEngine may well work for you. Particularly if access patterns are very bursty On 18 August 2014 00:56, Dimitri Adamou < [email protected]> wrote: > Hey there, we are looking at changing servers as we have very high storage > and processing needs - so a bit of a background on how one process works > > 1. hits the index file > 2. looks at the URL > 3. if cache exists skip to step 6 > 4. scans directory reads XML's for any futher rules > 5. caches the results based on the URL > 6. deliver content > > As these small cache files are roughly around 3-4kb each, I'm just > wondering if Google can operate normally with me keeping this process in or > skipping the cache part completely (Read the Bucket vs scanning the content > locally - I'm certain local scan is faster) > > I have various other cache's implemented but I believe those are safe to > stay as they are generally larger processed files > > My program has a* very high File I/O* as we are a Form service - Is > Google App Engine for us? > > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- 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/d/optout.
