Thanks Chris.  We are in the process of deploying Shindig.  We are
using the sample JPA implementation (with Hibernate).   I'm assuming
with an implementation like Shindig, the limit is based on the
datastore design?


On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Chris Chabot <chab...@google.com> wrote:
> App Data can be abused for a lot of things, but many containers limit the
> max size of it to 10kb per app/user.. so storing all the info of a forum in
> it would quickly run into this limit.
>
> So unfortunately you can't really escape setting up your own server, of
> course you could set up your own, but a lot of people have also had a lot of
> success with using something like Google App Engine, Amazon EC2, Joyent.com
> etc as a back-end for gadgets, which allows you to code in pretty much any
> back-end language you'd want and scale as your app becomes popular, so
> there's various ways of doing this depending on your requirements and
> expertise.
>
>    -- Chris
>
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Erik Earle <nomojom...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Context would help, sorry.  As I think about it, this probably the
>> wrong group, but I'lll ask anyway.
>>
>> Hypothetically, let say I'm building a site for ...Mercedes Benz.
>> For part of their site redesign, they want the ability to have
>> messageboards where the topics are posted videos and pictures (some
>> mercedes produced content and users posting videos and images of their
>> cars).  Then other guests can comment on the postings.
>>
>> We are looking at shindig for managing the social graph but it has
>> also been suggested to me that the messageboard information be stored
>> in the appdata type.  This seems to me a misuse of Appdata and
>> something like messageboard posts would best be stored by a system to
>> external an open social implementation.
>>
>> Am I missing something, or would this type of site require the
>> integration of a message board application with something like
>> Shindig?
>>
>>
>
>
> >
>

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