I would like to see: a) Is Google now concentrating solely on the enterprise and, with this latest release, effectively stating that App Engine is not a viable platform for college students, part-time hackers and enthusiasts to develop on?
b) Should Google have communicated the fact that pricing could be subject to such a radical overhaul (Instance Hours & subscription to enable scalability, as opposed to CPU based) once it left preview more clearly. On May 14, 5:03 am, Kayode Odeyemi <[email protected]> wrote: > how does the instance work? If I have multiple modules in one app, how > many instance is that? Or does it just mean that for as long as my app > is a singleton, no matter the amount of modules I have, it is still a > single instance. > > At what point is Google distributing my app unto more than one server, > which will definitely cause more than one instance? Is it possible to > control the instances created? I mean like force App Engine to manage > resources within a fixed number of instances instead of trying to be > so perfect (unmanaged) that it costs me lots of money. > > Greg, I'll be looking forward to your answers on these FAQs because > I'll be giving a talk on Google App Engine at upcoming CloudCamp > event. > > Regards > > On 5/12/11, Kenneth <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Greg mentioned he was putting together anFAQso let's help him out! > > > If you're going to answer this just put in your question into a single line, > > let's not try and answer them here or give opinions, there's plenty of other > > threads for that. I do understand that Google doesn't have answers to some > > these. > > > Here's my list: > > > 1) What is the time granularity of the instance pricing? ie if I have an > > instance up for 5 minutes, what am I charged, $0.08 / 60*5? > > 2) Will I be able to tune the scheduler myself, ie set it to performance or > > low cost, Will I be able to limit the min or max number of instances > > created (with the obvious impact on user experience)? > > 3) Python concurrency, will this require any code changes, do you have any > > estimates based on your testing of the number of well behaved requests per > > second a single instance will be able to handle for a given framework? > > 4) Database charges, when can you give us more details over what Max gave in > > the other thread, are you charging for deletes, what do you expect the ratio > > to be between the new pricing metric and the Datastore API calls metric we > > have today? > > 5) Will you be charging differently for instances that use different amounts > > of memory, since this seems to be the cost that you're going after that > > isn't charged for in the current model. > > > Thanks, > > Kenneth > > > -- > > 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. > > -- > Odeyemi 'Kayode O.http://www.sinati.com. t: @charyorde -- 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.
