Re: [google-appengine] Massive EC2 outage

2011-04-21 Thread Derrick Schneider
atacenter... and then > when the original comes back up you get to merge any lost > transactions. > > I've been there and I'm happy to leave this job to the professionals. > > Jeff > > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Derrick Schneider > wrote: > > While

Re: [google-appengine] Massive EC2 outage

2011-04-21 Thread Derrick Schneider
While it's certainly unfortunate for companies that have bet on EC2, they'd be smarter to distribute their servers a bit so that a single data center outage does not take out their entire company. On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Jeff Schnitzer wrote: > I'm not suggesting schadenfreude here, but

Re: [google-appengine] Deletes = CPU intensive

2010-11-20 Thread Derrick Schneider
gt; many etc. > > On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Derrick Schneider < > derrick.schnei...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> One thing I've noticed as I'm purging older items in the datastore is that >> deletes are really CPU intensive. Granted, I was probably deleting a

[google-appengine] Deletes = CPU intensive

2010-11-20 Thread Derrick Schneider
One thing I've noticed as I'm purging older items in the datastore is that deletes are really CPU intensive. Granted, I was probably deleting a few hundred thousand entries, but I went from well under my free CPU threshold for the day to burning out the rest of our budgeted 14.5 hours over the cour

Re: [google-appengine] Novice getting started: advice on getting to grips with App Engine

2010-11-14 Thread Derrick Schneider
I actually found the upcoming Code in the Cloud from Pragmatic Programmers to be a good starting point. It won't give you a ton of depth, but it does give you some examples that get you well grounded for the rest of the AppEngine experience. On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Robert Kluin wrote: >

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Latency spikes and aborted requests in the last 24 hours

2010-10-27 Thread Derrick Schneider
Yeah, I'm in the same boat. We're trying to decide which implementation of this app to go with, and having AppEngine be in an unreliable state isn't helping my cause at all. Derrick On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Carlos Ble wrote: > Same here. We are just planning a migration out of GAE :-(