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They also have an algo that protects against DDOS, and allows for resources to be allocated as organic (even viral) activity increases... see their article abou
by th0ma5 17y ago
They also have an algo that protects against DDOS, and allows for resources to be allocated as organic (even viral) activity increases... see their article about load testing to see that you can get quite a lot of load by staggering it.
- BarsMonster 17y agoI am not denying the fact that it scales. I am saying that on the per-box level it is slow. And if you get slashdotted, you get that "synthetic" load peak, which might not be handled by scaling.
- th0ma5 17y agoI have been slashdotted, and as best I could tell it handled it fine. The individual nodes are slow, especially since the box is probably doing lots of other things. If the task can be parallelized, this is a non issue. If it can't (which may be insanely rare) then it won't work. Most of my time on AppEngine has been trying to make smaller and faster requests that handle less and less data.