Greg, thanks for offering reference on your HRD experience. Now that HRD is not costing more, we sure will move over soon. I hope GAE team has more of such consideration for the dev community. As far as I can tell, the GAE dev community is still considerably small and fragile, especially comparing to EC2.
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Greg <g.fawc...@gmail.com> wrote: > @Alan and @Kenneth - I too was hesitant about moving to the HRD, but I > took the plunge five months ago. It's basically how the datastore > should be - I haven't seen ANY downtime, latency is much more > predictable, it "just works". You're going to love it, trust me. > > HRD is NOT for "mission critical" only, it is for any app that you > care about at all. The only use for MS is now old apps that aren't > used - everything else should be migrated as a matter of the highest > priority. > > Google haven't deprecated MS, probably to avoid yet another PR > backlash. But I'm sure privately they want to switch everyone over to > HRD as soon as possible, because it causes so many support headaches. > And it's not just Google - I'm sure you'll have noticed that you get > very little help from this group as soon as you admit you use MS. > Basically if you don't care enough about your app to migrate it, why > should we care about it either? > > So to sum up, MIGRATE NOW! Make sure you understand eventual > consistency (see > http://neogregious.blogspot.com/2011/04/migrating-app-to-high-replication.html > and > http://neogregious.blogspot.com/2011/06/high-replication-migration-lessons.html > ), > and then GO FOR IT! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
