[declan]

Elie Bursztein leads Google's anti-abuse research, and recently mentioned on Google+ that he moved his personal web site to GAE: http://www.elie.net/

I can load his GAE-hosted web site in ~300ms, and there's a useful performance box on the right sidebar of his site that breaks down how long each component takes to load on GAE:

$ time curl http://www.elie.net/ > /dev/null % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 36146 0 36146 0 0 113k 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 114k real 0m0.316s user 0m0.005s sys 0m0.005s

I've been thinking of doing the same with my personal web site but haven't yet.

[thenomad]

Interesting - that's 100ms faster than the test sites I was using.

Do you know what language he used to implement the base setup? I had a suspicion that implementing in Go might end up being faster than Python.

[declan]

From some of his other posts I'm 99% sure that he used Python.