nitin
@factoryjoe they probablyoverflowed a long and now they don't know what to do, maybe not a long just an int
| nitin @simplebits what's worse than finding a worm in your apple? Finding half a worm ;-) |
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| nitin In response to request from @tylerdmace I have set up @twnge acct for periodic updates on my scaling experiments. Follow twnge on twitter. |
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| nitin to clarify:I am *NOT* creating a twitter clone - am running experiments to understand these problems. Hope it helps Twitter and everyone |
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| nitin @kevinmarks sorry link here why GAE not suitable for these experiments http://tinyurl.com/5opxln |
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| nitin @kevinmarks here's a more detailed explanation |
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| nitin @kevinmarks another (arguable) issue is transaction overhead - eventual consistency is just fine when fresh data served from memcache. |
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| nitin @kevinmarks to clarify - obviously BigTable scales but as exposed in GAE very restrictive. Show stopper no WS API for datastore, no async. |
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| nitin @kevinmarks I can take this offline I am not making random assertions |
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| nitin @marytrigliani if you know anyone who would publicise the effort and or sponsor AWS usage time for the Goal 3 experiment that is also good. |
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| nitin @marytrigliani you can help by spreading the word to engineers with the right spirit |
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| nitin @kevinmarks we can discuss offline - I know some people doing this kind of stuff on GAE, this is meant to complement that. |
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| nitin @kevinmarks I meant AppEngine maybe for memcached ... etc |
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| nitin @kevinmarks AppEngine mabef or memcached API but db is not ready for prime time for this scale and GAE has no queues. Async critical. |
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| nitin enough crap. I have created a wiki for people who want to do real science re scaling web based social messaging. http://tinyurl.com/5qdspy |
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| nitin It's easy to start a Twitter clone but we won't know if it scales until it doesn't and do we know when that will be? |
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| nitin What did one math book say to another? Don't bother me I've got my own problems. |
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| nitin Confucius say crowded elevator smell different to midget. |
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| nitin Confucius say chemist who fall in acid absorbed in work |
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| nitin ok @biz you're on ;-) Why did the tomato blush? Because it saw the salad dressing. Why did the coal scuttle? Because it saw the kitchen sink |
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