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Currently, Google Drive is telling me: "Wow, this file is really popular! It might be unavailable until the crowd clears. Try again." (Page title: "Too Many Req

Currently, Google Drive is telling me: "Wow, this file is really popular! It might be unavailable until the crowd clears. Try again." (Page title: "Too Many Requests") I didn't even know Google Drive had a throttling mode.

Animats 9y ago
I didn't even know Google Drive had a throttling mode. Right. That seems like something from the era of 1990s hosting services with very limited capacity.
- gonzo41 9y ago
  The user data is tied to the location of the data center. the files may not be replicated past the most proximal location for his use. Regular performance/networky issues then come into play.
  - wjnc 9y ago
    They should have used a Lambda-function for scaling. It's only code in a zip-container.
    - johannes1234321 9y ago
      Scaling they code they can easily. The issue is with collaborative editing and keeping everybody in sync - which is the job of Google docs.
    - beojan 9y ago
      Google should have used Amazon's cloud? Really? They have one of their own.
      - DoTheNeedful 9y ago
        The suggestion was a jab at another HN hype story, from yesterday.
- SEMW 9y ago
  To be fair, Google Docs' core offering is live collaborative editing, not 'being a CDN'. Sure, there are ways they can support each at different times if they really wanted to, but it seems perfectly reasonable for them to say that when it gets to an N that they'd have to put significant engineering effort into supporting, that that's not what it was designed for, and that if someone wants CDN behaviour do that they can always export the document and put it on an actual CDN
  - jordache 9y ago
    wow so a platform with a robust sharing capability is not designed for certain 'types' of sharing. So the user has to be aware the internal implementation of each google cloud service and use them accordingly. I say this scenario is acceptable for a startup offering. Not so for one of the most concentrated comp sci engineering org. Additionally, this is Google Slides. So sharing is inherent in the name of the product
- jordache 9y ago
  TIL, Google Drive built on the Geocities platform.
tabtab 9y ago
Our firewall blocks it for some reason.
scottlamb 9y ago
> I didn't even know Google Drive had a throttling mode. Google Docs (docs, spreadsheets, and presentations) is designed for collaborative editing. It scales really well to lots of docs; it scales to a decent number of people collaborating on a single doc. If many people want to simply view a single document, use the "publish" menu item. It's more restrictive (iirc, it doesn't show chat, comment threads, document history, or live updates) but AFAIK has no limit on how many people can view at once.

Animats 9y ago

I didn't even know Google Drive had a throttling mode. Right. That seems like something from the era of 1990s hosting services with very limited capacity.

gonzo41 9y ago
The user data is tied to the location of the data center. the files may not be replicated past the most proximal location for his use. Regular performance/networky issues then come into play.
- wjnc 9y ago
  They should have used a Lambda-function for scaling. It's only code in a zip-container.
  - johannes1234321 9y ago
    Scaling they code they can easily. The issue is with collaborative editing and keeping everybody in sync - which is the job of Google docs.
  - beojan 9y ago
    Google should have used Amazon's cloud? Really? They have one of their own.
    - DoTheNeedful 9y ago
      The suggestion was a jab at another HN hype story, from yesterday.
SEMW 9y ago
To be fair, Google Docs' core offering is live collaborative editing, not 'being a CDN'. Sure, there are ways they can support each at different times if they really wanted to, but it seems perfectly reasonable for them to say that when it gets to an N that they'd have to put significant engineering effort into supporting, that that's not what it was designed for, and that if someone wants CDN behaviour do that they can always export the document and put it on an actual CDN
- jordache 9y ago
  wow so a platform with a robust sharing capability is not designed for certain 'types' of sharing. So the user has to be aware the internal implementation of each google cloud service and use them accordingly. I say this scenario is acceptable for a startup offering. Not so for one of the most concentrated comp sci engineering org. Additionally, this is Google Slides. So sharing is inherent in the name of the product
jordache 9y ago
TIL, Google Drive built on the Geocities platform.

tabtab 9y ago

Our firewall blocks it for some reason.

scottlamb 9y ago

> I didn't even know Google Drive had a throttling mode. Google Docs (docs, spreadsheets, and presentations) is designed for collaborative editing. It scales really well to lots of docs; it scales to a decent number of people collaborating on a single doc. If many people want to simply view a single document, use the "publish" menu item. It's more restrictive (iirc, it doesn't show chat, comment threads, document history, or live updates) but AFAIK has no limit on how many people can view at once.