TheRealURL: URL Un-shortening Web Service With JSON/P Support

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I built it initially as a joke, but perhaps it might actually be useful in some cases (eg, Twitter clients). Would love to hear HN feedback on possible applications etc.

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I built it initially as a joke, but perhaps it might actually be useful in some cases (eg, Twitter clients). Would love to hear HN feedback on possible applications etc.

Are you storing the results in the Datastore?

Right now, its all live. I'll probably add it later on, if it gets enough use that it makes sense. I wonder Google App Engine supports output caching, that might be even better performance-wise.

I believe GAE only supports caching on static directory resources. http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/config/appconfi...

I just added it lookup caching - ended up using memcache, turns out GAE supports it pretty nicely: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/memcache/overvi...

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