Sigh...

Now I have to go do a re-write... Save MORE money on my GAE bill.  Maybe
Google should pay you and me not to post to the forums. :-)


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeff Schnitzer
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 12:53 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [google-appengine] 'Flush' Like "I'm tapping out but keep
working" in Python?

Task Queues execute on frontend instances just like normal requests.
They will only spin up a 2nd instance if the additional task traffic crosses
the normal latency/idle threshold.

Tasks are processed just like normal requests; they share the same memcache,
instance memory, etc as your normal application.

Tasks are, however, separate requests so if you have some thread local data
it won't be available in the later task execution thread.  Also sometimes
the task queues get backed up so it's hard to absolutely predict when a task
will be run.  Usually it's pretty instantaneous though.

One thing that makes tasks easier is the Deferred feature, available in both
Python and Java.

The task queue rocks.  I lean on it pretty heavily.  Also, you can enlist
some number of tasks (5, I think) transactionally, which creates a good way
to work around 2pc issues.

Jeff

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Brandon Wirtz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Apparently nothing.  But having only been doing python for a year, I
> was trying to do it the PHP way.
>
> Now that I know... This looks great, and it appears that what I should
> have done with ASync writes should have been done with task queues.
>
> Do Task Queues Execute on the Front end instances? Or will adding
> tasks spin up a second instance?
>
> I'm currently serving 30k visitors a day per instance, and I don't
> know if tasks would take some users from 1 instance to 2 instances.
>
> -Brandon
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeff Schnitzer
> Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 11:15 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [google-appengine] 'Flush' Like "I'm tapping out but keep
> working" in Python?
>
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Brandon Wirtz <[email protected]>
wrote:
>>
>> But can I say "Your process will be completed shortly" close the
>> output, and then Log some stuff, make some updates to the data store,
>> but let the user get on with life?
>
> How would this be different than shunting any remaining work off to
> the task queue?
>
> Jeff
>
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