David, that post mirrors many of the points made here: http://www.answercow.com/2010/03/google-app-engine-cold-start-guide-for.html
There's one or two more tips on that page. On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 12:47 PM, David Chandler <[email protected]>wrote: > In the mean time, here are some ideas for reducing startup times by > shrinking our apps. I went from 8.1s to 2.5s mainly by eliminating > Guice, and I would expect similar results with Spring. I can > definitely live with 2.5s... > > > http://turbomanage.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/appengine-cold-starts-considered/ > > /dmc > > On Mar 30, 3:04 pm, Baz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Great information, Ikai. > > > > I really feel that "instances" should be completely avoided in concept > and > > language on the GAE. What if the feature was simply an enable/disable > deal > > called "Warm Scale". If it were enabled, then your *next* instance would > > always be warm, regardless of how many instances you already had. This > would > > be most noticeable and suitable for low QPS production apps that are > > constantly going from 0 to 1 instances (as you mentioned), but it could > > still be important for others, say, for a super-high-profile site, or a > > situation where your QPS is right at the threshold of instances and > > oscillating back and forth between two instances. Whatever the situation, > if > > the solution were generalized like that, and most importantly not tied to > a > > SPECIFIC NUMBER of instances, it would be up to the user to decide how > > important it was for them and whether to enable it. > > > > Cheers, > > Baz > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine for Java" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-appengine-java%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en. > > -- Ikai Lan Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine http://googleappengine.blogspot.com | http://twitter.com/app_engine -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" 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/google-appengine-java?hl=en.
