TechCrunch Labs: Our Experience Building And Launching App On Google App Engine(techcrunch.com)

TechCrunch Labs: Our Experience Building And Launching App On Google App Engine

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/08/techcrunch-labs-our-experience-building-and-launching-app-on-google-app-engine/

9 comments

nickb18 lat temu

Anyone else surprised how slow TC's app is? For something simple like this, it's really slow... like ~3sec on average response times! I also got an error... (google Server Error)

I guess Google has more than few kinks to fix before they open it up completely...

gduffy18 lat temu

Maybe they need to cache their handlers:

http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/requestsandappc...

I think this might be the reason they are using so much CPU time as well.

gcv18 lat temu

OK, cool, but what does the penultimate sentence mean? "The scalability of App Engine is exciting but elusive; most apps won't need it and those that do won't use Google." It seems to me that apps which do need scalability will benefit most from the App Engine because they won't have to spend months hacking their own scalability infrastructure.

hwork18 lat temu

ok I should probably clarify that. thanks

tlrobinson18 lat temu

Looks like Justin.TV and Scribd are battling for first...

tlrobinson18 lat temu

p.s.:

    #!/bin/sh
    
    while [ 1 -eq 1 ]
    do
        curl -d direction=$1 -d key=$2 http://appengine.crunchbase.com/
    done

Param #1 is either "up" or "down", param #2 is the key obtained from the voting form.

hwork18 lat temu

you've found the fatal flaw in our design.

tlrobinson18 lat temu

At least now we can see how the appengine handles heavy loads

wumi18 lat temu

funny how Zoho is the 2nd worst.

Odd for a company making $ 1 million profit / month.