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App Engine: Multi-tenancy, High Performance Image Serving, Increased Quotas

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Re: App Engine: Multi-tenancy, High Performance Image Serving, Increased Quotas

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This allows you to easily serve the same app to multiple different customers, with each customer seeing their own unique copy of the app. I'm a bit confused by what this means exactly. Is it still 1 code base that you upload and manage or are you now just given the ability to upload different versions of code for each tenant? he API works will all of the relevant App Engine APIs (Datastore, Memcache, and Task Queues)…

Multitenancy is a killer feature, very useful for Google Apps Marketplace offerings. App Engine is slowly transforming to a true 'general-purpose' platform.

Re: App Engine: Multi-tenancy, High Performance Image Serving, Increased Quotas

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This allows you to easily serve the same app to multiple different customers, with each customer seeing their own unique copy of the app. I'm a bit confused by what this means exactly. Is it still 1 code base that you upload and manage or are you now just given the ability to upload different versions of code for each tenant? he API works will all of the relevant App Engine APIs (Datastore, Memcache, and Task Queues)…

Multitenancy is a killer feature, very useful for Google Apps Marketplace offerings. App Engine is slowly transforming to a true 'general-purpose' platform.

You're right. If this feature had been available when I was working for a client few months back, it would have saved me a lot of time.

Re: App Engine: Multi-tenancy, High Performance Image Serving, Increased Quotas

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Appengine keeps getting better and better.

Indeed. Unfortunately, it started off at "Terrible".

I think it's finally moved past "Embarrassing", but it's still a long way from "Ready to use."

Give them another couple years, and maybe they'll make it all the way to "Good". Unfortunately, lots of us got burned by it in the early days and we probably won't be coming back.

Re: App Engine: Multi-tenancy, High Performance Image Serving, Increased Quotas

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The appengine photo URL service is just the first step in what will eventually be a full-blown CDN service for Appengine, and I'm sure ultimately, any Google AdWords customer. I'm sure all the CDNs are really excited about this prospect... :-(

Can you use only this part of the appengine's offer? or it's again the ToS? I see tons of scriptkidies inspecting this to cheaply scale their sites.

I've already seen quite a few instances of people using GAE as a free CDN; what Google thinks about that I don't know.

Re: App Engine: Multi-tenancy, High Performance Image Serving, Increased Quotas

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you use only this part of the appengine's offer? or it's again the ToS? I see tons of scriptkidies inspecting this to cheaply scale their sites.

I've already seen quite a few instances of people using GAE as a free CDN; what Google thinks about that I don't know.

They don't put ads up on the text pages, so I doubt it matters to them. It's not like a free webhost where they're depending on you showing their ads to cover costs.

Re: App Engine: Multi-tenancy, High Performance Image Serving, Increased Quotas

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Appengine keeps getting better and better.

Indeed. Unfortunately, it started off at "Terrible". I think it's finally moved past "Embarrassing", but it's still a long way from "Ready to use." Give them another couple years, and maybe they'll make it all the way to "Good". Unfortunately, lots of us got burned by it in the early days and we probably won't be coming back.

Really? I started using it almost on day one and feel like I had an unqualified positive experience. In particular, this was the first platform I used that freed me from the burdens is sys admin. (Obviously that is not unique to gae. Also, there are numerous other qualities I enjoy.)

What do you find lacking?

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