Hi Stephen, Thanks for the feature request. Cost-optimizing and priority queues are definitely something we're considering down the road. Right now we are focused on getting Cloud Tasks to Generally Available before we prioritize new features. I encourage you to sign up for the Cloud Tasks Alpha <https://goo.gl/Ya0AZd> if you haven't already. Once whitelisted, you'll be added to a private group where we're discussing all things Cloud Tasks queues related. It will be a good place to get more up to date information on our status and to provide us with additional details on your use cases.
On Friday, February 3, 2017 at 2:47:43 PM UTC-8, Stephen wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 6:30 PM, 'Kim Lewandowski' via Google App Engine < > google-a...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>> wrote: > > We’re working to repackage Task Queues as Cloud Tasks and open it up for > > broader integration with the rest of GCP. For example, we want to make it > > possible to enqueue Datastore operations or Cloud Functions for > asynchronous > > execution. The idea is to make it as easy as possible to spin up large > > distributed systems without needing to write handlers and managers. > > A feature request for Cloud Tasks: > > One nice cloud feature added since task queues appeared is Preemptible VM > Instances <https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/preemptible>. > I'd like to be able to create tasks and specify that a deadline any time > this week is fine, so run it at reduced cost to me whenever convenient for > you. > > For example, when sending email via Amazon SES there is transaction limit. > I want to send a low priority news letter to many addresses no more than > 30/s, within 7 days, using a preemptible vm if possible. If a user forgets > a password the forgot-password email should jump to the head of the queue, > and if no preemptible vm is available a standard one should be started. The > 30/s limit should be maintained. > > 'preemptible' should be an attribute you can give to an app engine machine > type. > > > -- 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 google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/7c1da6c3-802e-464a-b183-a285b949891a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
