Yes, for those who wish to tinker and share their tinkerings with the world, the zero cost entry point* is good.
I'm also interested in any opinions of which free services are better than GAE for Lift apps. Cheers Jeremy * - yes, I know there is a billing model for increased bandwidth and other add-ons with GAE. 2009/4/20 samreid <[email protected]> > > If GAE is not a good home for Lift applications, can you recommend > some alternate hosts? Are there any free alternates? > > Thanks, > Sam Reid > > On Apr 17, 3:57 pm, David Pollak <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Folks, > > > > I've just committed a version of Lift (including the Lift Example) that > runs > > on the Google App Engine. You can see the running demo at: > http://liftdemo.appspot.com/ > > > > What's missing: > > > > - Mapper and Mapper-related stuff. You can use JPA. > > - Comet. GAE's lack of thread or message queue support is a huge > > limitation. > > - Actor-based session-shutdown notification is disabled on GAE. > > - There's no session affinity guarantee, so there may be problems with > > migrating sessions (I'll be working with the Google folks on this > issue) > > > > Okay... so you can build apps on GAE... I have to wonder... who would > want > > to? > > > > GAE gives you a highly scalable platform to build CRUD apps. Without a > > back-end messaging infrastructure, long running processes, threads, > > inter-session messaging, etc. there's not much in the way of exciting > apps > > to build. Here are a list of apps that could not be built with GAE: > > > > - Twitter (requires a message bus and back-ground processing) > > - Facebook (has many of Twitter's requirements) > > - GoogleTalk > > - A travel site (the 30 second request duration means that looking > stuff > > up on a back end service is not possible) > > - A multi-player game > > > > So... on a $100/mo box from CalPop, I can run a service that will scale > to > > 20M requests per day. If I'm doing 20M requests per day, I've got a > > business where I want more control over my infrastructure than GAE gives > > me. That might be Amazon EC2 where I can power-up and down boxes at > will. > > There are also a number of different scalable storage solutions on > Amazon. > > I just can't for the life of me figure out why anyone would want to put a > > Java/Scala app on GAE. > > > > Thanks, > > > > David > > > > -- > > Lift, the simply functional web frameworkhttp://liftweb.net > > Beginning Scalahttp://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 > > Follow me:http://twitter.com/dpp > > Git some:http://github.com/dpp > > > > -- Jeremy Mawson Senior Developer | Online Directories Sensis Pty Ltd 222 Lonsdale St Melbourne 3000 E: [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
