Wonderful writing!!! You should receive a Pullet surprise!!!
On Mar 15, 4:26 pm, "Brandon Wirtz" <drak...@digerat.com> wrote: > > Thanks alot, Brandon, for the excellent advice. > > I am considering making an auto responder: > > Dear Google App Engine Patron, > > Thank you for your inquiry about why your GAE experience sucks. It appears > from your posting that you are running on Master Slave. We regret to inform > you that any issues you have are related to this decision which you made > early on in your work with GAE and you will continue to regret this decision > until you move to High Replication. If you are unwilling, or unable to move > off of Master / Slave we make the following suggestions: > > Make a Funny Custom Error page with lots of pop-ups so that you can monetize > your downtime. > Mark scheduled downtimes on the calendar in advance and claim they are > religious holidays (Google is God, and if God is resting so should you) > Modify your code to work in a read only, mode so that maintenance has > minimal impact. > Put Migration to High Replication on your roadmap, schedule a vacation > during the month the migration is scheduled to take place so it is someone > else's problem. > > In the unlikely event that you still believe the Master Slave offers the > best choice for your application we might suggest you visit a psychiatrist, > or a neurologist as clearly your brain is also experiencing some sort of > malfunction. We are aware that Master Slave sounds much sexier than High > Replication. We are also aware that replication is what threatened the SyFy > Stargate:SG1 Universe, but we remind you that was a work of fiction. > > Have a great day, and we thank you for your continued patronage. > > Google App Engine Volunteer Support (We are in no way affiliated with > Google, and we don't really volunteer any support) > > PS > Did you like that marketing thing Google did where they pre-select High > Replication, then on the Master Slave description imply that Master Slave > will cost 1/3 as much, but with downtime and performance issues it actually > costs more? Yeah, we wish we thought of it too. We'd do similar things with > our marketing but Google probably patented 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.