It is a real shame that Google isn't better about communicating around issues like this. I think GAE is a tremendously powerful platform, but I am increasingly worried that it is not a high enough priority within Google. The series of recent stability and latency issues are undermining a tangible amount faith in the viability of GAE as a solution for many business applications.
On Monday, December 17, 2012 2:11:23 PM UTC-5, Francois Masurel wrote: > > There have been quite a few messages posted on this list about this > problem : > > > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/google-appengine/cJcOrOE4JDc/uKFBbylFOxIJ > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/8KiXRP-oU5I/Jf5kzcvyIiwJ > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/NR_oV4znvks/KtkSmVQD2IgJ > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/_znmrJwFMuM/V2epYOQ19L4J > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/google-appengine/hg3BH8WOGWA/discussion > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/google-appengine/UN5oCWkPsaA/discussion > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/google-appengine/RneC9qDbeRE/discussion > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/google-appengine/sLZcZoK-A3Y/discussion > > Googlers have never answered to most of them. I don't know what that mean. > > Are they quietly trying to kill java on GAE ? Are they working on a fix ? > Impossible to know. > > It looks like we won't build a strong business on GAE anytime soon with > such user facing latencies. > > François > > PS: > > I definitely think PAAS is the way to go for web and mobile development, > so we'll probably see some improved hosting solutions in the near future if > it's not already the case (RedHat is working on something with JBoss). > > > > On Monday, December 17, 2012 4:32:40 PM UTC+1, Cesium wrote: >> >> On Dec 16, something changed. >> >> Now, instances do not survive more than a couple minutes of inactivity >> (no incoming requests). >> >> Thus, low traffic applications see long latency since a new instance is >> created for the request. >> >> This is disastrous for my application (and customers). >> >> Can someone please help? >> >> Thanks, >> >> David >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/xrz010wi2ogJ. 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.
