App Engine?

[Alex Dean]

On Jul 14, 2010, at 8:45 PM, Joseph Sinclair wrote:

> Not many systems require that kind of scale

This is the key.  Most of what your going on about is totally  
irrelevant to most developers and their users.  'Bigger' does not  
imply 'better', and if you don't need to get massive, you can save an  
awful lot of money and complexity by not worrying about it or paying  
for it.

>
> When was the last time your app generated <100ms response times  
> doing multiple PKI operations on 4M-40M files while sustaining >2000  
> requests/minute on <10 commodity servers with no special hardware?

I give up.  You are awesome.