the nodejs bird flies over the appengine cloud whistling at Gulliver Google
Looking at the cloud computing landscape how does appengine maintain its value proposition in a world where nodejs provides dramatically better request response times and a slew of nosql databases wait in line to replace and take on BigTable.
Lets take all their recent enhancements
- Always On, Warm Up, 10 minute task limit (all of these are improving internal constraints that don’t exist in your vanilla nodejs host)
- Channel api (nodejs was born to do this)
- Pipeline api (nodejs with flow control libraries do this at cpu speed as opposed to per-http-request taskq speed)
- High Replication DataStore (at an increased cost (3x) all of a sudden makes redundant and scalable riak on ec2 or rackspace more interesting)
So what can Gulliver Google do
1. Add a nodejs frontend to its BigTable datastore. (Google buys joyent.com)
2. Drop-in integration with the various google api properties and google apps making development on appengine a no brainer for consuming google api and other third party api services. (Google buys apigee.com)
It’s getting interesting in Brobdingnag-land Please pass the popcorn!
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the nodejs bird flies over the appengine cloud whistling at Gulliver Google
Looking at the cloud computing landscape how does appengine maintain its value proposition in a world where nodejs provides dramatically better request response times and a slew of nosql databases wait in line to replace and take on BigTable.
Lets take all their recent enhancements
- Always On, Warm Up, 10 minute task limit (all of these are improving internal constraints that don’t exist in your vanilla nodejs host)
- Channel api (nodejs was born to do this)
- Pipeline api (nodejs with flow control libraries do this at cpu speed as opposed to per-http-request taskq speed)
- High Replication DataStore (at an increased cost (3x) all of a sudden makes redundant and scalable riak on ec2 or rackspace more interesting)
So what can Gulliver Google do
1. Add a nodejs frontend to its BigTable datastore. (Google buys joyent.com)
2. Drop-in integration with the various google api properties and google apps making development on appengine a no brainer for consuming google api and other third party api services. (Google buys apigee.com)
It’s getting interesting in Brobdingnag-land Please pass the popcorn!
