Hi Blixt, This is a common strategy if you're storing only a small amount of data. In fact, several App-Engine-Friendly session libraries already support "Cookie Only" sessions, including Beaker and gaeutilities.
-Nick Johnson On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Blixt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey, I had an idea about optimizing for logged in users and wanted > input from others how they do it. > > First of all, my first priority when developing a web site is not to > optimize resource usage. My #1 priority is to experienced latency (for > the visitor) of the site as low as possible. > > It's very common for sites to allow users to log in. This gives the > user a session. You usually store this session id as a cookie, and > then you fetch the user from the datastore using this session id, > every request. > > My idea is this: > Instead of the session id, you store an AES encrypted (using a server- > side secret key) copy of the user data in a cookie. This data also has > a timestamp so that it can be invalidated. This should reduce the > number of datastore requests drastically (or memcache requests if you > put the session data there). It will use more CPU and bandwidth, but > overall it should speed up the user experience. > > What do you guys think? Does this seem to be a good way of reducing > the experienced latency, or can you think of better ways? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-appengine%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- Nick Johnson, Developer Programs Engineer, App Engine Google Ireland Ltd. :: Registered in Dublin, Ireland, Registration Number: 368047 Google Ireland Ltd. :: Registered in Dublin, Ireland, Registration Number: 368047 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" 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?hl=en.
