WWDC Keynote on MacBidouille.com with App Engine

No bandwidth, no servers, no infrastructure, no money required. Just a bit of python and a tad of javascript and you can live stream an event to 10.000 people concurrently (theoretic figure, Analytics said the live-blog site had 30.000 visits in all) within Google App Engine‘s free quotas.

keynote requests per second

This is the graph taken from my App Engine dashboard the morning after the WWDC’09 Keynote after MacBidouille.com live-blogged the event in French through my application. We always had scaling problems while Google’s infrastructure was in beta and we were bound by smallish quotas, but since they opened fully the service a couple months ago, the sky is the limit.


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One response to “WWDC Keynote on MacBidouille.com with App Engine”

  1. Hi!

    I an the editor of Russian blog about Apple http://macspoon.ru. Right now I’m trying to find solution for liveblogging about 9 September Apple Special Event. Can you share with me you code for Google App Engine? I will really appreciate it.

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