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Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 13:27:50 +0930
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On 4 September 2011 03:51, Joshua Smith <JoshuaESm...@charter.net> wrote:
> Yes, that certainly seems possible. =A0But it's a lot more trouble than j=
ust having a way to say to the scheduler, "run these when you have an idle =
instance with nothing better to do," or "DO NOT spin up an instance just to=
 handle this task"
>
> On Sep 3, 2011, at 12:14 PM, peterk wrote:
>
>> You can pull from task queues instead of having them push, right? That
>> could help a lot where task queues are the source of instance spin up.
>> I'd even be happy to dedicated a back-end to task queue pull-work if
>> it was necessary - at least that is totally under your control.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sep 3, 5:05 pm, Joshua Smith <JoshuaESm...@charter.net> wrote:
>>> I also identified task queues as the source of my excessive instances. =
=A0I suspect this is a quite common issue, and together with datastore acce=
ss bugs (sorry, but you never should have written it like that) like the on=
e you found, are conspiring to make a lot of these crazy new billing number=
s.
>>>
>>> I think a lot of people just need to take a deep breath and look at the=
ir apps the way you did. =A0It's certainly a lot less work than migrating t=
o EC2.
>>>
>>> On Sep 3, 2011, at 6:16 AM, Emlyn wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>>> I don't think I've posted here before, but I've been an appengine user
>>>> for a while now (closing on 2 years? Is that even possible?). And like
>>>> many, I had a rude shock with the new pricing (going from $0.50/day to
>>>> $50/day).
>>>
>>>> However, I dug into what I'm actually being charged for, and I think
>>>> it's all actually in my control to sort out, and that in itself is
>>>> sort of fascinating. I wrote a long blog post on this, which people
>>>> might find interesting.
>>>
>>>> The Amazing Story Of Appengine And The Two Orders Of Magnitude
>>>> http://point7.wordpress.com/2011/09/03/the-amazing-story-of-appengine.=
..
>>>
>>>> I'd be really grateful for feedback, especially if I've gotten
>>>> anything wildly wrong. I haven't actually made any of the changes that
>>>> I've foreshadowed in the post, that's for the next day or two, and
>>>> I'll write a followup article on how it goes.
>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance for having a look!
>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Emlyn
>>>
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