Google Shows How To Scale Apps From Zero To One Million RPS, For $10
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Re: Google Shows How To Scale Apps From Zero To One Million RPS, For $10
#2Having beta tested the Google Compute Engine while working at Google, I have only good things to say about it. They've come along way in an extremely short space of time and knowing what they have internally, this is just the beginning. They'll far surpass AWS for performance, ease of use and cost.
Re: Google Shows How To Scale Apps From Zero To One Million RPS, For $10
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#4The gist describing how to reproduce the test yourself: https://gist.github.com/voellm/1370e09f7f394e3be724
Re: Google Shows How To Scale Apps From Zero To One Million RPS, For $10
#5The only reason I can see for this being this high on the front-page [18 points and only one comment(from a googler)] is the google employee block vote (apparently tech-savvy isn't a prerequisite in the google upvote marketing department):
1 million requests per second is 20 times greater than the throughput in last year’s Eurovision Song Contest, which served 125 million users in Europe No, r/s != Gb/s.*
(Cue the down vote from the google up voters)
Re: Google Shows How To Scale Apps From Zero To One Million RPS, For $10
#6Having beta tested the Google Compute Engine while working at Google, I have only good things to say about it. They've come along way in an extremely short space of time and knowing what they have internally, this is just the beginning. They'll far surpass AWS for performance, ease of use and cost.
> They'll far surpass AWS for performance, ease of use and cost.
Most likely. But those aren't the only things developers care about when looking for PAAS.
There is that whole "Platform" aspect. And AWS destroys Google in this respect. It has far more offerings and more importantly it has a very large ecosystem of companies who will be in the same data centre who you can leverage e.g. Iron.io.
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#7This is the reason that our site. http://plexisearch.com uses Google App Engine.
Google has allowed us to run "Code" rather than worry about infrastructure. Because it is an "Engine" we don't have to configure much, and the autoscaling is fantastic.
Google Edge Cache means we get Better than CDN performance on static assets.
There are limitation to AppEngine, but because we can also leverage virtual servers we can create a hybrid environments that let us do things AppEngine won't like install C Libraries, or run Windows (we aren't doing that, but we could).
We have been very happy with Google App Engine and since we are running millions of pages a day through our Natural Language Engine it has worked out really well for us.
-Brandon Wirtz CTO Stremor.com
Re: Google Shows How To Scale Apps From Zero To One Million RPS, For $10
#8I keep checking to see whether or not I can run my own images yet but Google Compute Engine so far supports less things than even Digital Ocean.
What if I don't want to run your version(s) of CentOS/Debian, guys? Hmm? (I hope somebody from there reads this) :)
Still, its a very very interesting offering and something to keep an eye on. I bet nobody here is using it yet because its still early days and the thread devolves into such old classics like "you'll never be able to reach a human at Google" and "they changed up their pricing with Google App Engine that one time and my app was no longer free to run all of a sudden!". Sigh.
I personally think it would be great if you could spin up the same instances on either cloud and load-balance/fail-over as needed/cheapest. Docker makes it doubly exciting.
Re: Google Shows How To Scale Apps From Zero To One Million RPS, For $10
#9The only reason I can see for this being this high on the front-page [18 points and only one comment(from a googler)] is the google employee block vote (apparently tech-savvy isn't a prerequisite in the google upvote marketing department): 1 million requests per second is 20 times greater than the throughput in last year’s Eurovision Song Contest, which served 125 million users in Europe No, r/s != Gb/s.* (Cue the do…
Have you worked extensively with ELBs? They need pre-warming in advance of significant traffic changes, they can't handle spikes well because they take many minutes to respond to changes in traffic volume, and they use an ever-changing set of IP addresses for your load balancer nodes.
The GCE load balancer has none of these problems, which makes it a huge advantage over AWS and ELBs.
Disclaimer: I'm an engineer at Heroku. We manage dozens of ELBs for ourselves, and thousands of them for our customers.
Re: Google Shows How To Scale Apps From Zero To One Million RPS, For $10
#10This is the reason that our site. http://plexisearch.com uses Google App Engine. Google has allowed us to run "Code" rather than worry about infrastructure. Because it is an "Engine" we don't have to configure much, and the autoscaling is fantastic. Google Edge Cache means we get Better than CDN performance on static assets. There are limitation to AppEngine, but because we can also leverage virtual servers we can cr…
AFAICT this article is talking strictly about Google Compute Engine and its GCLB load balancer product, not about App Engine.