As a regular reader, you must know that I have built a very simple GWT application hosted on the Google App Engine infrastructure. I have built it with no special optimization. I mean that I try to avoid classical bottlenecks, but I have coded it like most developers will code it.

I'm pretty confident that the Google App Engine can welcome a large traffic. I think also that GWT is particularly suited for high traffic. Now, it is time to prove it.

My objective is simply to get 4000 unique visitors in 10'. I think it is equivalent to get 100000 unique visitors a day : 100000 / 4 hours / 6 . This is not that much, but I think it is enough to show that 99.9% of websites can be coded in GWT and hosted on GAE without thinking about the slashdot effect.

If you want to be part of the team, just go there "http://qwerty.codathlon.com" on Friday May, 23 around "4 PM GMT+2" (depending of your time zone).

If you want to help me in this effort, just spread the word.