Simon Willison’s Weblog

UK Scale Camp. We’re hosting a one day web performance and scalability unconference at the Guardian on the 4th of December. If you’re involved in running a high-scale website in the UK (or abroad) we’d love you to come along. Spaces are going fast.

# 4th November 2009, 11:12 pm / ukscalecamp, guardian, scalability, events, unconference, performance

Why Google App Engine is broken and what Google must do to fix it. Aral Balkan describes a number of critical issues with App Engine. If you’re considering building something serious on it you need to read this article; I’ve run in to several of these problems myself just running toy projects on the platform. Here’s hoping they get addressed in the near future.

# 3rd October 2008, 10 pm / google, appengine, aral-balkan, scalability

Google Seattle conference on scalability. Google are hosting a conference on scalability in Seattle on June 23rd. They’ve just put out the CfP.

# 10th March 2007, 4:37 pm / cfp, conferences, google, scalability, seattle