viable?: using frequent ajax polling of cloud storage for chat webapp?

[HOCINE BENFERHAT]

google cloud storage (gcs) advertises strong read-after-write consistency, so i thought it would provide a cheap way to implement a chatroom webapp on gae. frequent polling of gae would be expensive, so it would work like this:

when a user says something in the chatroom, the browser sends the msg to gae, which updates a json-formattted file on gcs. 

all users constantly poll gcs (once per second?) to see if anything has been said in the chatroom.

would this be a viable solution? sufficiently cheap/fast?

[HOCINE BENFERHAT]

also, would it be possible to implement secure private chat rooms? perhaps by encrypting the gcs buckets?

[Brandon Wirtz]

Use a time stamp in the request, and Edgecache can cache the request. That will let you  serve massive numbers of users pretty cheap.

 

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