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by buff-a 15y ago
Customers were upset about the pricing changes then, but fervor has picked up in intensity lately because the new App Engine model goes into effect later this month. No, the fervor picked up in intensity because they only now gave us the
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by buff-a 15y ago
All this "we aren't a non-profit" and "oh poor us we have to make some money" and "its better than if we turn it off", just deliberately misses the point: It was news to us that they are losing so much money. It was news because they spen
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by buff-a 15y ago
The GAE change is that "true resources-based pricing" switched from an overabundant, almost irrelevant resource (CPU time) to the actual resource in short supply - RAM. Except that thats just not true! We aren't charged by MB-hour. We are
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by buff-a 15y ago
True. But it does demonstrate how a large corporation can negate many of the benefits of open source, and that Google is one such company doing so.
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by buff-a 15y ago
Is it just going to be Alphas in this brave new town?
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by buff-a 15y ago
Don't want to take the wind out of anyone's sails, but this program is hardly hard-to-hack. Bravo for getting to grips with ELF, assembly and reverse engineering. But this article represented just the first few steps on a long an intriguing
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by buff-a 15y ago
Netsol, register, etc all charge $6.99 if you ask.
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by buff-a 15y ago
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2797992
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by buff-a 15y ago
But Apple produces 10 pixel-perfect prototypes for each feature. They compete — and are winnowed down to three, then one, resulting in a highly evolved winner. Because Apple knows the more you compete inside, the less you'll have to compet
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by buff-a 15y ago
As I said in my original complaint: I, and many others, spent a lot of time figuring out how to write apps that do it the "app engine way" That included learning NoSQL. At least that part was not a waste. There are no right answers to you
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by buff-a 15y ago
First of all, thank you for chiming in, here, on HN. Your presence might also be welcomed on the google forum, since I've read most of the posts there and no one has managed to answer this question. If memory pressure is the issue, how are
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by buff-a 15y ago
On the contrary, its the SQL database thats "digging up the necessary information through quite a few steps" it just that massive effort required by the SQL server is hidden from you, the programmer, by a one line bit of text called a SQL s
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by buff-a 15y ago
Postmortem for August 18, 2011 outage http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-downtime-not...
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by buff-a 15y ago
Yeah, I was worried about all that. Hell, I was worried NoSQL couldn't possibly work at all, given my experience of SQL and the joyful things that happen there. But I've found that my object model has evolved to handle the "scariness" of th
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by buff-a 15y ago
Denormalize. Match your data rows to your access pattern (i.e. your UI). Naive example: if you have a webpage that displays a list of employees, and it must have their department name and boss in that list, you put that data in the employee
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by buff-a 15y ago
I have several ideas that would scale well on GAE and neither want not need a relational db. I'm not making do without SQL, I'm actively not using it and its very successful. Even when I move to EC2, I still wont be using SQL. In fact I hav
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by buff-a 15y ago
I wrote an app from scratch for GAE. Its cost is increasing 5000%. In fact the increase seems more than people who just slapped django on it.
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by buff-a 15y ago
I wish that were true. Could there be some huge fuckup on the part of the kid programming the chart? I'm just going to keep clicking my heels and pretend that Google doesn't really want to take my monthly cost and charge me that per day .
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by buff-a 15y ago
The problem is how does one get from 31 cpu-hours to 879 instance-hours. You might be thinking that in the original measure they did something insane like measure only user time of a process, or only when its executing a request, not bootin
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by buff-a 15y ago
It was cheap by comparison. Now it appears to be orders of magnitude more expensive. I base this on the fact that their billing estimator is claiming that 1 cpu-hour on the old system equates to 100 instances-hours on the new system. Its no
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by buff-a 15y ago
I'm seeing a 50x (5000%) $ increase and I wrote my app from scratch "by the GAE book". It almost seems as if those of us who put the effort in to do it the GAE way are worse off than those who just uploaded django.
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by buff-a 15y ago
Here's my complaint: I, and many others, spent a lot of time figuring out how to write apps that do it the "app engine way": * Fast completes (30 second timeout) * Offloading to task queues when you cant * Channels * Blobstore two
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by buff-a 15y ago
So they built a service called "App Engine" and it turns out that the "engines" that run my "app" are exactly the parts that Google doesn't have enough of, and so they are going to charge me uncompetitive amounts of money per day? Lets su
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by buff-a 15y ago
FTA: Those fixed standards enable a world of variation. At Western Governors, students aren’t asked to sit in a class any longer than it takes for them to demonstrate that they have mastered the material. In fact, they aren’t asked to sit
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by buff-a 15y ago
Because unless those deep pockets actually release functioning players on Wii, PS3, XBox, iPad, OSX, Win 7, Samsung Blu-Ray players, then I wont be using their service. That's quite a barrier to entry. Not insurmountable, sure. Then they ha
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by buff-a 15y ago
The age you started programming doesn't matter. False. But it is only one indicator, and people lie. I believe that there is natural aptitude, there is experience, and finally there is motivation. The age you started programming is most c
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by buff-a 15y ago
I think there's another issue. At a small company, everyone (usually) has a stake. Everyone wants to make the company succeed, because having the company succeed gives each individual a huge payout. Beyond a certain size, however, new indiv
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by buff-a 15y ago
Can you explain how on earth my app goes from 0.02 cpu-hours to 2.8 instance-hours? Are you doing the "any part of an hour is billed as an hour" thing that EC2/Azure do?
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by buff-a 15y ago
That's effectively what is was . Only RAM was missing from the calculation.
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by buff-a 15y ago
Indeed. The billing estimator they provide says that, on this one day, I was using 0.02 cpu-hours, and they estimate that under the new system that same activity will be billed as 2.8 instance-hour. 0.02 cpu-hours => 2.8 instance-hour

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