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.

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