I would like to do this for a web app, with a large volume of requests ongoing (hundreds per day). I didn't see anything like this on the offical Google Plus API.
Maybe this will do it?
http://www.tomanthony.co.uk/blog/google_plus_one_button_seo_count_api/
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Is there a way to see in the Google Play console how many users at which time of the day were actively using my app?
Not at the moment. If you want analytics like this then you probably want to add a solution like Firebase Analytics to your app.
According to https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/quotas#Mail
a GAE app developed by a third party (anyone of us) and hosted in GA Cloud has a limit of 20.000 messages that can send each day, right ?
What if an app has registered 100.000 end-users that accepted to receive a daily email notification ?
isnt GAE a platform for this kind of apps ? do we have to find out for another provider ?
does the app must use a third-party service like mailchimp api or similar to do this job ?
thanks,
d.-
GAE no longer supports sending more than 100 emails and they will not increase your quota using this form request. They are nudging people to SendGrid (why SendGrid specifically in unclear). Its an unfortunate reduction in GAE capabilities.
They have a nice little footnote in there that says:
The new limit of 20,000 messages per day only applies to applications
created on or after December 14th, 2012. Applications created before
this date will not be subject to this limit, even if they enable
billing after December 14th.
You may be able to go around this by converting an old and unused GAE project to send the emails. If you don't have one, you can ask your friends if they do. Pretty much everybody I know has at least one or two dead GAE projects.
You can request a quota-increase here: http://support.google.com/code/bin/request.py?&contact_type=AppEngineCPURequest
Explain what you are doing and why you need more of your mail-quota.
I put one app on google app engine.
My app has one cronjob which is parse data from Internet and store into my db.
When user using my app, it will extract data from db, and show data to users.
I found that is too time consuming and too many request from db.
I want to revise each page when the cronjob running daily.
Then user can see the page without query my database.
How can I do that in GAE ?
Thank you for your reply.
Not nearly enough info in the question to help you. For example, what does "too many request from db" mean? Is it because you have a lot of traffic? Or you are querying the db too much?
Possible solutions are:
Edge cache your page: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-appengine/6xAV2Q5x8AU/discussion
Store your page in memcache.
Optimize your database accesses. Most likely you're doing something very inefficiently.
Use a cronjob to generate your page, store it in the blobstore, and redirect your fetches to the blobstore. You can do this, but this is a pretty dumb way to go about it, given that there are better options.
I'm afraid it's a limitation of GAE, according to this post, no matter how much caching and tricky solutions you find. They just worsen google's policies.
You can't have what you need if you don't write directly inside the html file and store it on the server every time, which is far more resource consuming and, in my opinion, just pointless. Since GAE is a free service, with the purpose of testing, you should acquaint with what you have, or pay.
I need advice if it is worthwhile to explore Google APP Engine option, so if learned and experienced user could comment, it would really help (I do not need code)
Present Scenario:
I have a website, where the data need to be updated every second ? it is built on .NET, and a user need to have updated data every time they visit, the data changes every second. The users have bookmarked the URLs so the data is changed and URL remains the same.
We also have a lot static data, which users access for researching and reading.
Experience with cloud:
We had tried using the Website with one of the Big Players (not with the original cloud company, with their nearest competitor ;) we had problems the file getting stuck at times (essentially some users are seeing update, some not), and they had 'Modified Trust' rights level implemented, which was restricting us at multiple places (Auto Generating files in directory)
My Questions:
(a) You think in above scenario, Google App Engine could help ?
(b) URL re-writing more specifically generating 200 server return instead of 404 would that be possible or the 404 being trapped and coverted into 302 and redirected ?
(c) We had a hole in the pocket on hosting fees when we moved from traditional to cloud and now we are back on traditional server with Load Balancer, do you think on heavy traffic site do we stick with traditional or look at google app to lower our costs ?
I look forward in hearing comments..
Thanking everyone in advance.
(a) You think in above scenario, Google App Engine could help ?
The problem with users not seeing data is a factor of caching or eventual consistency in your database. That's not going to be "solved" by moving to a new cloud provider. The appengine datastore uses eventual consistency, but you can solve that problem by using memcache to store data that changes frequently. That said, Appengine doesn't give you complete control over memcache so you may still have problems solving that issue.
(b) URL re-writing more specifically generating 200 server return instead of 404 would that be possible or the 404 being trapped and coverted into 302 and redirected ?
Not really sure what you mean here. You can certainly return 302 or 200 responses instead of 404s using any web framework worth its salt
(c) When designed well, appengine can be very cost effective, but when not optimized it can be a money sink... there are a lot of good papers out there about how to effectively optimize it, but if you are talking about a lot of users hitting the site every second you are going to pay for it.
I have a newsletter with 13k subscribers. I would like to use Google to send the newsletter instead of the free edition of mailenable I am using currently.
The main thing that has put me off is the 2,000/day sending limit as it would take a week to send out a bi weekly newsletter which may have time sensitive information in it.
I saw a post here that said you can send over the 2,000/day limit if you use the GAE.
I went to the GAE page and had a look at the limits and it does say that you can make 1,700,000 email queries. However, I called the Google apps sales team and they said Google says anything above 2,000 emails is spam and has no legitimate purpose (I had the feeling though that the person I was talking to was poorly trained and had no idea what the GAE was).
So would I need to create my own google app that acts like a SMTP server and uses the GAE to send the email? Would this be the same as sending through Google Apps, i.e. DKIM header added and trusted IP?
Any help anyone can give me is greatly appreciated.
Many thanks in advance.
From my experience GAE is a very bad platform to send bulk emails.
For a long time it didn't support DKIM or Sender Id, its hard to mange bounces, and on top of everything you need to write your own framework for bulk sending using tasks or backends.
The cost of instances time for sending those emails might even double your cost (in $$$) for sending the newsletter.
We choose to go with Mailchimp which is IMHO the best tool for sending bulk newsletters.
Billed applications can indeed send more than the default daily free limit of emails with App Engine. Once you have enabled billing, you can choose how much quota you want to dedicate to your app, including email sending.