Has Google App Engine performance improved?
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App engine was getting quite a bad rap last year due to slowdowns and an outage in May. Are things better? Is anyone running anything serious on there?
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Answer:
Things have definitely improved, and given the new high replication datastore http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2011/01/announcing-high-replication-datastore.html things will get even better. The speed of the datastore has definitely improved over the last year, and is very usable for most applications now. That is, of course, given you know how to take advantage of it. For my app, http://www.jaavuu.com/ , I have almost no issues with the site itself, but sometimes accessing the app console and deploying a new version is a little slow, although it's also gotten better in the last few months. When there are hickups, they are pretty transparent about it: http://code.google.com/status/appengine/detail/datastore/2011/01/24#ae-trust-detail-datastore-get-latency There are many big sites out there running on GAE, and there's lots of questions covering that question, such as:
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Other answers
It's certainly improved from a network delivery standpoint... even on a global level. I'm running tests against a sample app on GAE from about 30 diff backbone locations around the globe and pulled some global averages together here - https://cloudsleuth.net/blog/cloud-provider-global-performance-ranking-%E2%80%93-12-month-average
Ryan Bateman
I currently work on a GAE project and have to say that the performance of the data-store is good once you get used to how they read and write data. I am using Java not Python although I suppose the degrade in performance is all subjective based on how much data you are putting in and how much you are getting out. Still, they are good in the developer tutorials with telling you how to go about improving performance by doing batch persistence calls or writing smarter queries. It's still not as flexible as a traditional DB/App but its good for quick deployments and it does scale rather well.
Melroy Coelho
http://igiftsocial.com runs on GAE. Performance was horrible in the beginning, and I clearly remember it getting much better around April or May. It's very expensive though.
Amir Memon
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