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

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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...

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.

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.

ok I should probably clarify that. thanks

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

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.

you've found the fatal flaw in our design.

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

funny how Zoho is the 2nd worst.

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

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