the original article isn't fresh in my mind anymore, but I enjoyed this one and found myself agreeing more. :) FWIW, my opinion is it is very similar to how th

the original article isn't fresh in my mind anymore, but I enjoyed this one and found myself agreeing more. :) FWIW, my opinion is it is very similar to how things are done on appengine. You want to schedule a task? you make a form post to an end point thats setup to be monitored by their service. you want to talk to a backend instance? post to it. maybe their rpcs work the same way (serialize to protocol buffer, post to endpoint, get response, deserialize protocol buffer). it feels low tech and un-sexy, but it works and it's easy to understand.