It must not be too bad from Google's perspective, as they include an example of a "recache" job in the GAE java cron documentation:
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/config/cron.html That said, I'm not sure why anyone would necessarily want to do this, given the new pricing. On Jul 11, 3:08 pm, Jeff Schnitzer <[email protected]> wrote: > Using cron to keep your app warm is not sanctioned either. If Google wanted > to give you a way to keep your app running, they'd offer it as a feature and > charge for it. > > If these hacks become commonplace, GAE engineers will be retasked to > fighting them and this will further delay new features that I care about > like next-generation queries. Furthermore, the collateral damage of closing > these loopholes might impact all our apps (such as, hypothetically, a > surcharge for crons more frequent than 30 mins). > > Furthermore, if you hope to build a real business on top of appengine, > you're getting off on the wrong foot by alienating the folks at Google. > Don't expect to get your questions answered in this forum, and don't be > surprised if your app gets blocked in some way. > > Read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons > > Jeff > > > > > > > > On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Max <[email protected]> wrote: > > hi Jeff, > > > AFAIK, lots of GAE developers are using cron job to *warm up*, including > > me. You can search in this group, many ppl are doing this. > > > Also, if we want something more than a periodic ping, like those use cases > > you mentioned, then we probably don't want all these logic stay with in our > > business logic. This is the real benefit of this project and now is just the > > first step. But since such monitoring tools will enable "warm up" feature as > > a side effect, I will need to know this groups' idea before going further. > > > Again, I don't intend to go against *always on instance* solution. I am > > just sharing my work so that other developers don't have to setup cron jobs > > every time. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Google App Engine" group. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > >https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/ht3qDc6Z984J. > > > 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. -- 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.
