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To akavlie's Ram limit comment: We run on Google AppEngine. It gives us great scalability, but it limits us to about 512 Megs of ram. We made this choice becau
by drakaal 14y ago
To akavlie's Ram limit comment: We run on Google AppEngine. It gives us great scalability, but it limits us to about 512 Megs of ram.
We made this choice because with a small team it gave us the most freedom to focus on the code, rather than the scalability and the infrastructure. We don't manage servers, or routers, or load balancers.
- akavlie 14y agoWell, technically we are now allowed a limit of 1GB per instance, as of a couple of months ago: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2013/02/app-engine-175-released.html http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2013/02/app-engine-175-r...
- aidos 14y agoI was going to ask about that, seemed strange to feel that a self imposed constraint was a challenge you had to work around. There are other options outside of app engine that could help you achieve the same thing. I outsource most of my processing to picloud (specifically because I need more ram than I have). I don't work in your field but I think it's a really interesting problem you're working on.
- drakaal 14y agoIf you are going to compete with Google you might as well step in to the arena running on the same hardware. :-) Also the best targets for acquisition put Google high on the list so building things the way they would makes sense.
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