Google App Engine gets Cron

Re:Google App Engine gets Cron by jye on Wednesday April 08, 2009 @05:05AM (#552467)

"A cron job will invoke a URL at a given time of day. A URL invoked by cron is subject to the same limits and quotas as a normal HTTP request, including the request time limit."

So you can't do cron tasks which last more than 30 seconds. Too bad.

I'm looking foward to "Offline processing on App Engine: a look ahead" presentation during the Google I/O (http://code.google.com/intl/en-US/events/io/sessions.html).

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Re:Google App Engine gets Cron by jaxn on Wednesday April 08, 2009 @06:48AM (#552530)

I have a cron job set to run once a minute (which I am impressed they allow).

Also, I am currently using the remote-api to create tasks that I run on my laptop or another server. I imagine the offline processing is pretty similar.

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Re:Google App Engine gets Cron by tomjen on Wednesday April 08, 2009 @08:37AM (#552612)

That is indeed pretty stupid, but on the other hand you can set up a task that runs often and then split the time consuming task into several smaller tasks and then only execute on task at a time.

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Re:Google App Engine gets Cron by abii on Wednesday April 08, 2009 @07:31AM (#552553)

Thanks for noticing this. The request time limit does suck.

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