The more I think about this, the more I think the fundamental problem is the aggressive retry schedule on the task queue. This is really easy to fix in your own app.
With the exception of the task queue, it seems like every GAE expense grows proportionally with user traffic. However, one coding error can easily cause the task queue to DOS your app with retries. For most tasks, if two tries don't work then you might as well wait an hour before trying again - chances are some third-party service is down or there may be a code issue that requires developer intervention. Maybe you catch the problem after a couple hours, so your bill is 4X what it normally would be... but this is better than the two alternatives: 100X bill, or your app going down due to quota exhaustion. I'm going to change my retry schedule now, and I recommend everyone else do the same. Jeff On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 5:32 AM, Marcel Manz <marcel.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I guess open an issue for these suggestions and star them would be a very >> good way for GAE Team to hear us. >> > > Added, please star: > https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9455 > > Marcel > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
