On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Emanuele Ziglioli < [email protected]> wrote:
> >> - The Files API, which has been deprecated since June 2013, will soon >> be restricted to existing users only in preparation for its future >> removal. >> Further information about the removal of this API is available here: >> https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/deprecations/ >> >> > That's a shame because Cloud Storage is an inferior solution from the GAE > point of view: with Blobstore, we could serve large files without using CPU > instance time. With Cloud Storage that's not possible, unless the file is > public. > Non proprio!-) "Signed URLs" are the Cloud Storage way to "serve large files without using CPU instance time" AND without making them public -- see https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/access-control#Signed-URLs . Alex > We have to load each byte into the instance first therefore adding latency > and wasting RAM. > Finally, using the Blobstore API to serve Cloud Storage files is not an > option either. First the generated key is bound to the file name, so it's > not a key. > I feel like Google is discouraging us from using GAE, see also the latest > price reduction that only applies to Compute Engine VMs. > I'll start looking into alternatives, GAE increasily looks like an orphan. > With 16 SDK releases (1.9.5 to 1.9.20 included) in exactly one year (May 20 to May 20) this "looks like" seems peculiar. How many releases per month would suffice to convince you otherwise, if 1.33 are not enough?-) Ciao, Alex > Emanuele > - on GAE since 2011 > > -- > 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. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/96169256-0e0d-49e6-b8e1-70565cdb2567%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/96169256-0e0d-49e6-b8e1-70565cdb2567%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/CAE46Be-dLqU9xCGW%3Dc2beXHR5EdpzOU0Ja5tFu%2B8XKrjqp15cA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
