Cron / Batch Processes

[Ron W]

I've noticed that in App Engine there is an omission of cron jobs. I
have a Python application that I'd love to move to App Engine, but we
rely on pulling Twitter API calls using a two-minute batch.

I realize it adds the complication for Google of people writing bots
on App Engine but I'm interested in finding out if this will be
supported in the future, and in what capacity?

Thanks
Ron

[Brett Morgan]

Wanna star http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6 ?

=)

[Greg]

I wondered about this too. The GAE terms seem to prohibit any method
of running periodic jobs, but presumably you could have another server
with cron issuing wget commands to your app.

Maybe when we get to pay for processing they'll relax the terms to
allow this.

Cheers!
Greg.

[Brett Morgan]

The only issue with that style of solution is that i wind up having to
look after a server. I'm sold on GAE mainly because it outsources all
of the sysadmin crap i've been doing for years. Scaling up a web app
is always painful.

[James]

cron jobs are a must!
That can be implemented externally but it would be so much better if
the service supports this.

[Drew Sears]

I wouldn't advocate this for a production app, but if you want free
external cron that doesn't need to run on a precise schedule, you
could have your page output RSS and then subscribe to it in Google
Reader.

http://www.google.com/support/reader/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=70642

On Apr 9, 2:42 am, James <urd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> cronjobs are a must!