One of the things that amazes me so much about App Engine is that it can handle hundreds, or thousands, of writes per second. I've seen it do this numerous times. It takes some knowledge to sustain those rates, but it is very possible.
Robert On Friday, January 27, 2012, Ikai Lan (Google) <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, 1 post a minute is fine. Even 1 write a second is fine. > Where you will run into issues is when your application does something like ~hundreds of writes a second. There are very few systems that will do this well, and you will have to start looking into sharding your writes - but for now this is a premature optimization. > > -- > Ikai Lan > Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine > plus.ikailan.com > > > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Andrei-Ştefăniţă Cocorean < [email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I want to develop a web service which will be used by a few thousand clients to save new pieces of data at a rate of aprox. 1 post/minute. I've been looking at what App Engine has to offer but I'm not sure if it's the right platform for this kind of system. At a glance it seems the datastore is optimized for efficient reads, but not so much for write intensive applications. >> >> I'd appreciate any help on deciding whether it's worth to try and build this service on App Engine. Also, if you implemented something similar I'd be interested in hearing what problems you encountered along the way. >> >> Regards, >> Andrei >> >> >> -- >> 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/-/bW3pKqHKcSEJ. >> 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. > -- ------ Robert Kluin Ezox Systems, LLC -- 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.
