Posted by Bartholomew Furrow and Sebastian Kanthak, Google Code Jam TeamAt Google, we like to use our own projects for internal development. Following that philosophy, one of the first apps ever made for Google App Engine was the contest platform for Google Code Jam. The application was a good fit: a rich web interface, real-time user interaction, and a heavily parallel design. But we faced one major challenge, which was how to handle the huge scoreboard -- in the first round, we had over 11,000 contestants.While App Engine's datastore allows...
Friday, 30 January 2009
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