This may not be appropriate for some services that are hosted at Google App Engine, but if you find yourself doing a lot of external web calls, then there is an opportunity to cut your cpu cycles. One of my main services is a news aggregation app which deals with around 400 feeds. This is implemented in a backend, so getting this component correct pays big dividends in terms of quota usage.
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One of the great joys of working with Google App Engine is that it has been clearly thought out by people who really care about developing apps. That means not only providing the right features but also the right tools. When you jump into google appengine admin you are presented with information that is critical to developing a successful app. One of the most useful tools is the app logs. Logs are your friend.
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A while back I posted about my experienced with multithreading on GAE and a recent comment has prompted me to revisit the subject. Recently on the GAE Java mailing list there has been quite a bit of traffic on multithreading as developers prepare for the new pricing model and attempt to find ways to reduce their ongoing costs.
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Loving this news item.
Can’t believe I haven’t posted here in over a month. What can I say I’ve been busy working on a number of different projects. One of which was an iPhone App I wrote in xCode over 6 months ago. Client asked me to dust it off so we could do a custom build. While talking the client mentioned a tool set called Titanium Appcelerator, which although I had heard of it I had never really taken a good look. So I spent an evening installing and playing with this environment, thinking that it would be interesting but doubted that it would be of much use … face-slap.
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