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The operational costs of a web startup are approaching the cost of connectivity. But, the people to wire it together will still want money. And as a number of
by olefoo 19y ago
The operational costs of a web startup are approaching the cost of connectivity. But, the people to wire it together will still want money.
And as a number of people are gleefully pointing out, Appengine comes with a strategic cost that is not trivial.
After playing with the .zip file they provide, I think fears of lockin are overblown. It should be relatively trivial to port existing apps to GAE, and apps developed for GAE should be easy to port to a WSGI enabled server.
Google will be a good place to run the free version of your web app that serves as an ad for the premium version that does the same thing with crypto, or with C extensions that add value to the transaction, you'll be able to use the same core code in relatively similar application containers.
- apathy 19y agoThis is what I was thinking as I played with it last night. I'm definitely going to use it for that. And if I can get away with it, I'm going to try doing some unclever implementations of semi-supervised ML, maybe a few matrix calculations, and see what I can get away with before they kick me off their grid :-) It occurred to me that, since no one is paying me to optimize the usual tight loops that crop up, or write a C extension to speed them up, I can try just running a shit load of them in parallel and storing the results in their ObjectStore. Now I just need to randomize the ''request'' IP blocks and we're all set for the billion or so simulations that my officemate wants to run.