[google-appengine] Re: is app engine down? I'm seeing a huge number of deadline errors and our app failing to server, hr datastore

2012-01-31 Thread Vivek Puri
Its is happening again right now. All Task are stuck, and app serving is also impacted. On Jan 31, 11:49 am, Mark markrobertdav...@gmail.com wrote: This seems to be happening again now.  My dashboard has been reset (only see activity from past 10 minutes and only have 1 instance running) and

[google-appengine] Re: is app engine down? I'm seeing a huge number of deadline errors and our app failing to server, hr datastore

2012-01-27 Thread Vivek Puri
+1 . Complete app is down. Somone from AppEngine team, please look into this asap. On Jan 27, 9:34 am, Tom Willis tom.wil...@gmail.com wrote: I'm seeing it too actually. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this

[google-appengine] Re: is app engine down? I'm seeing a huge number of deadline errors and our app failing to server, hr datastore

2012-01-27 Thread Vivek Puri
Come on guys, look into it and fix it. Also, please acknowledge that someone from AppEngine team is looking into it. On Jan 27, 9:46 am, Kenneth kennet...@aladdinschools.com wrote: Yeah, mine's gone again. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google

[google-appengine] Maximum length of query string in GET request

2012-01-16 Thread Vivek Puri
Can someone from AppEngine team please let me know what is the maximum acceptable query_string length for GET requests using webapp framework. Thank you -- 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] Re: Cost of mapreduce was $6,500 to update a ListProperty on 14.1 million entities

2012-01-05 Thread Vivek Puri
Even i have a table with 1.5TB of data. I need to truncate it but dont want to give thousands to delete data(i had paid thousands in old pricing model for another table. Not sure how much more it will cost now), while i pay hundreds for the data to be there. AppEngine team really needs to have a

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Timeouts to Paypal

2011-12-21 Thread Vivek Puri
Here is the link - https://www.x.com/developers/paypal/forums/general-developer-support/requests-google-appengine-timing-out -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To view this discussion on the web visit

[google-appengine] Re: Timeouts to Paypal

2011-12-20 Thread Vivek Puri
I was still getting timeouts and finally put a proxy in place to avoid further issues. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To view this discussion on the web visit

[google-appengine] Re: Is it possible to have the GAE launcher keep the dev server running after hitting deploy? (Mac)

2011-12-16 Thread Vivek Puri
You can start it from Terminal and deploy from another Terminal tab or from Launcher. On Dec 16, 3:39 pm, Tyler tylerwa...@gmail.com wrote: Hello.  I'm using the GAE launcher on the Mac.  I find myself constantly having to start the development server up again because it gets turned off after

[google-appengine] Re: Isn't .08/hr 1.92/day $59.52/month for a 600 MHZ CPU instance with 128 MB memory a LITTLE EXPENSIVE

2011-12-14 Thread Vivek Puri
Great points Jeff. Double pricing for double CPU and memory is very similar to Mac pricing on memory. So, what do new Mac buyers do? They just get the lowest memory possible and get the cheapest memory deal from ebay. Unfortunately, we cannot do that here. On Dec 14, 10:36 am, Jeff Schnitzer

[google-appengine] Re: Too many memory errors with 1.6.1?

2011-12-14 Thread Vivek Puri
Looks like async urlfetch is no longer a good idea. On Dec 14, 4:51 am, Waleed Abdulla wal...@ninua.com wrote: Today I started noticing a lot of instances being killed for exceeding the memory limit (see error log attached). I didn't change any app settings! This seems to coincide with the

[google-appengine] Re: Isn't .08/hr 1.92/day $59.52/month for a 600 MHZ CPU instance with 128 MB memory a LITTLE EXPENSIVE

2011-12-14 Thread Vivek Puri
them to get, and never open their mac, or buy memory from ebay. If they were cheapskates, they'd be buying a PC that looks like a Mac on the outside, and costs a ton less. On Dec 14, 2011, at 12:26 PM, Vivek Puri wrote: Great points Jeff. Double pricing for double CPU and memory

[google-appengine] Re: Isn't .08/hr 1.92/day $59.52/month for a 600 MHZ CPU instance with 128 MB memory a LITTLE EXPENSIVE

2011-12-14 Thread Vivek Puri
currency. Want to get 1 cup of coffee for 1 million YadaYadaDollars? Oh yeah, bring it on baby! Heck, even iPhone 1 came with same memory. On Dec 14, 12:32 pm, Jeff Schnitzer j...@infohazard.org wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Vivek Puri v...@vivekpuri.com wrote: Great points Jeff

[google-appengine] Re: Isn't .08/hr 1.92/day $59.52/month for a 600 MHZ CPU instance with 128 MB memory a LITTLE EXPENSIVE

2011-12-14 Thread Vivek Puri
Looking at Heroku, they offer instance for $.05 with 512mb RAM. Dont see any wording asking for minimum hours of commitment. Besides that, this minimum hours of commitment is such a pain. As i discovered, you cannot increase/decrease hours at will. Any changes you make today, it does not come into

[google-appengine] Re: App Engine 1.6.1 Released!

2011-12-13 Thread Vivek Puri
Ikai, Looking at my Application setting, i see that the Frontend Instance Class is set to F2 by default. I didnt change it to F2. However the docs(http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/adminconsole/ performancesettings.html#Setting_the_Frontend_Instance_Class) say that F1 is default . Let me know

[google-appengine] Re: App Engine 1.6.1 Released!

2011-12-13 Thread Vivek Puri
with the 1.6.2 release of the experimental Python 2.7 runtime, the mapreduce and      datastore_admin builtins will not be supported. Regards, Waleed On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Vivek Puri v...@vivekpuri.com wrote: Ikai, Looking at my Application setting, i see

[google-appengine] Re: App Engine 1.6.1 Released!

2011-12-13 Thread Vivek Puri
Can someone from AppEngine team acknowledge these questions and answer them. On Dec 13, 2:46 pm, Vivek Puri v...@vivekpuri.com wrote: Ikai, Looking at my Application setting, i see that the Frontend Instance Class is set to F2 by default. I didnt change it to F2. However the docs(http

[google-appengine] Intermittent - InvalidSenderError: Unauthorized sender

2011-12-12 Thread Vivek Puri
Browsing through the logs, i noticed the below given error. This happened when the user sending the email is in fact a valid user listed on the app permissions page. Besides that, not all emails hitting that function call fail. So, there has to be a bug on the AppEngine side of things.

[google-appengine] Warmup Requests

2011-12-09 Thread Vivek Puri
For an application with 40-50 idle instances, is having warmup requests feature useful? If answer is yes, and we need to switch on the option, what be the impact on the cost? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this

[google-appengine] Re: What are folks using for Backup?

2011-12-07 Thread Vivek Puri
I need a solution too. -- 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

[google-appengine] Re: Move data from one local app to another

2011-12-04 Thread Vivek Puri
/deferred of your other app. ...Whatever you choose to use, you are to, never, ever upload a script this insecure to production! ...just saying. On Dec 3, 11:03 am, Vivek Puri v...@vivekpuri.com wrote: I have moved my app from MS to HRD and as a result the app name has changed

[google-appengine] Re: Timeouts to Paypal

2011-12-03 Thread Vivek Puri
the request, and they hit a url when the transaction is processed. Also consider using a proxy to do the submission. -Original Message- From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com [mailto:google-appengine@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Vivek Puri Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 1:28

[google-appengine] Move data from one local app to another

2011-12-03 Thread Vivek Puri
I have moved my app from MS to HRD and as a result the app name has changed. As a result all the local data is associated with the old app name and i have to keep switching back and forth between app names while deploying and developing. Would anyone know how to migrate data from one local app to

[google-appengine] Re: The Performance of the SDK development server has become unbearable

2011-12-03 Thread Vivek Puri
that we can improve, and this is one of them. -- Ikai Lan Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine plus.ikailan.com | twitter.com/ikai On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Vivek Puri v...@vivekpuri.com wrote: Ikai, Is it possible to bundle this into the sdk itself. All this is way

[google-appengine] Re: What happened to the promised reliability improvement for email delivery?

2011-12-01 Thread Vivek Puri
'Cause we like startups! On Dec 1, 8:19 pm, voscausa robert@gmail.com wrote: Why Sendgrid and not AWS SES. I moved to AWS SES and it is looking veyy good. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send

[google-appengine] App is Down

2011-12-01 Thread Vivek Puri
My app is down. Can someone from AppEngine team email me. This is urgent. -- 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] Re: App is Down

2011-12-01 Thread Vivek Puri
App is back up after quota issues. On Dec 1, 9:01 pm, Vivek Puri v...@vivekpuri.com wrote: My app is down. Can someone from AppEngine team email me. This is urgent. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group

[google-appengine] Re: The Performance of the SDK development server has become unbearable

2011-11-30 Thread Vivek Puri
Ikai, Is it possible to bundle this into the sdk itself. All this is way too much custom config to deal with. I already loose my email sending capabilities from localhost(needed for testing purposes) every time i upgrade to new version of sdk. On Nov 29, 1:56 pm, Ikai Lan (Google)

[google-appengine] Timeouts to Paypal

2011-11-30 Thread Vivek Puri
For the past couple weeks, we have been getting timeouts on urlfetch requests made to Paypal. We have set deadline of 55 seconds, and even then the request times out. If anyone else is also facing similar issue, please respond. Also, if anyone from GAE team has any ideas on this, please let me

[google-appengine] Video encoding

2011-11-23 Thread Vivek Puri
Has anyone tried video uploading, encoding and serving on appengine. With backends being available now, you can potentially transcode videos on appengine itself. If anyone is aware of libraries enabling, please share. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[google-appengine] Re: New Pricing is now in place!

2011-11-07 Thread Vivek Puri
Can we please get the old estimated bills back in the Billing history. I wanted to compute the total hours my app consumed for the past few weeks but the history has suddenly vanished. Please help! On Nov 7, 4:26 am, Gregory D'alesandre gr...@google.com wrote: Hello All, Today is Nov 7th and

[google-appengine] Re: Dashboard - Current Load: please return back Avg Latency CPU per URL

2011-11-07 Thread Vivek Puri
+1 On Nov 7, 5:23 am, Sharp-Developer.Net alexander.trakhime...@gmail.com wrote: Greg, thanks for prompt reply. I've raised an issue: *http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6259* Anyone feeling it reasonable please start it! To answer your question: *Why we need both

[google-appengine] Re: URLFetch is timing out excessively

2011-10-26 Thread Vivek Puri
+1 . Requests to Facebook are also timing out. On Oct 26, 3:10 pm, nischalshetty nischalshett...@gmail.com wrote: I agree twitter times out but this is not because of them. I'm talking about hundreds of timeout every minute. We have things in place to retry timeouts, but I'm talkin about

[google-appengine] Re: URLFetch is timing out excessively

2011-10-26 Thread Vivek Puri
Nischal, please star - http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6189 On Oct 26, 3:20 pm, Vivek Puri v...@vivekpuri.com wrote: +1 . Requests to Facebook are also timing out. On Oct 26, 3:10 pm, nischalshetty nischalshett...@gmail.com wrote: I agree twitter times out

[google-appengine] Re: URLFetch is timing out excessively

2011-10-26 Thread Vivek Puri
Thank you. On Oct 26, 3:30 pm, Nischal Shetty nischalshett...@gmail.com wrote: Done. I too have raised a production issue -http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6188 On 26 October 2011 16:25, Vivek Puri v...@vivekpuri.com wrote: Nischal, please star - http

[google-appengine] Re: URLFetch is timing out excessively

2011-10-26 Thread Vivek Puri
Nischal, Send me link to the issue you report on Twitter. Thank you On Oct 26, 5:46 pm, Nischal Shetty nischalshett...@gmail.com wrote: It works from a non google environment. We have a service running on AWS which is working smooth. It's not a whitelist problem because these are signed

[google-appengine] Datastore Read and Writes Statstics

2011-09-22 Thread Vivek Puri
For Estimated Charges Under New Pricing, my app is showing $40/per day for Writes and $13/day for Reads. $40 worth of writes is 40 million write operations. Right now i have not idea which table is being written to most and contributing to that number. Can AppEngine team provide statistics on

[google-appengine] Re: Datastore Read and Writes Statstics

2011-09-22 Thread Vivek Puri
this helps. On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Vivek Puri v...@vivekpuri.com wrote: For Estimated Charges Under New Pricing, my app is showing $40/per day for Writes and $13/day for Reads. $40 worth of writes is 40 million write operations. Right now i have not idea which table is being

[google-appengine] Re: Datastore Read and Writes Statstics

2011-09-22 Thread Vivek Puri
As per this doc: http://code.google.com/appengine/kb/postpreviewpricing.html#operations_charged_for There are 3 categories of Datastore operations: Write operations (Entity Put, Entity Delete, Index Write) Each of these operations will cost $0.10 per 100k operations. Read operations (Query,

[google-appengine] Re: Frequent Warning in Logs tells me to contact App Engine Team

2011-09-22 Thread Vivek Puri
Please see this - http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5944 On Sep 22, 9:24 am, Tom Newton tom.new...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone seen this before? We're seeing it a lot in the past few days. Request was aborted after waiting too long to attempt to service your request.

[google-appengine] Re: Changing max idle instances affects task queues?

2011-09-07 Thread Vivek Puri
I havent tried yet, but personally, i would change 1 of those settings per week to be able to tell the difference in the bill. On Sep 7, 4:52 pm, Waleed Abdulla wal...@ninua.com wrote: I noticed today that the performance of my task queue has dropped considerably (see image). The highlighted

[google-appengine] Re: Want to talk to the App Engine team in person?

2011-09-07 Thread Vivek Puri
Can we have a similar meetup in NYC? On Sep 2, 8:42 pm, Gregory D'alesandre gr...@google.com wrote: Hi Everyone, I know that the pricing changes are challenging and in some ways hard to understand.  So, we thought it might help to talk to the App Engine team about it in person, ask us

[google-appengine] Re: the min instace time is 24 hours?

2011-09-07 Thread Vivek Puri
Folks, reading all the posts(to be true, i read only the first 10 of this thread), it seems everyone where is expected to be a GAE billing expert to survive. Although all the discussions sound interesting, i dont really have the time to understand all the intricacies, and i believe same is the

[google-appengine] Re: Even the HR Datastore is (slightly) having performance issue now.

2011-09-02 Thread Vivek Puri
I will disagree with this post. We were on MS earlier and now on HRD. While on MS, we used to have datastore timeouts all the time and it was driving me insane looking at 20-30k error emails come in. After the move to HRD, everything is stable and there are no datastore timeouts anymore. I am

[google-appengine] Re: A comparison of your current bill against the new pricing model is now available in the Billing History page.

2011-09-01 Thread Vivek Puri
Alon Please explain as to what would be a good number to tune down to when active instances is 150 and total is 600. Are Max idle instances in addition to the active instances, eg 150 active and 100 idle = 250 total instances? Also, are you charged for 250 now, or for 150, which is really the

[google-appengine] Re: delaying pricing change

2011-09-01 Thread Vivek Puri
Or better, dont change pricing for existing customers. Change it only for new customers and apps. On Sep 1, 1:31 pm, Angke manc...@gmail.com wrote: +1984 On Sep 1, 9:28 am, bFlood bfl...@spatialdatalogic.com wrote: +100 On Sep 1, 12:23 pm, Mark Bucciarelli mkb...@gmail.com wrote:

[google-appengine] Re: A comparison of your current bill against the new pricing model is now available in the Billing History page.

2011-09-01 Thread Vivek Puri
@Jason, you have to very careful about this change. Couple of years back, i had made similar change without doing complete homework as to where the columns are being used and ended up breaking the code in number of places. Since single column queries are only inside your code and if code base is

[google-appengine] Getting TypeError on datastore put()

2011-08-31 Thread Vivek Puri
I am getting the following error when trying to make a put call(to update an existing row). Would someone from Google team have an idea as to why this might be happening. 'NoneType' object is not iterable Traceback (most recent call last): File

[google-appengine] Re: A comparison of your current bill against the new pricing model is now available in the Billing History page.

2011-08-31 Thread Vivek Puri
My bill is up by almost 3 times. I dont think i have the money to pay for that. And the mid-september date is too near to be able to do anything about it. While Greg's reserved instance idea is great, but i dont think it can push down the bill as much for a app owner since you might be either

[google-appengine] Datastore API calls Summary

2011-08-05 Thread Vivek Puri
Currently my app quota page says that it makes around 20million+ Datastore API calls per day. I will really like to have a summary that lists which kind got how many calls at any moment of the 24 hour period. Maybe they can be included as part of Datastore Statistics. -- You received this

[google-appengine] Re: deploy not working

2011-08-04 Thread Vivek Puri
+1 On Aug 4, 9:21 am, Sarang sar...@mycontactid.net wrote: Hello, For the past couple of hours, deployment is not working (see the log output below, it always stops after cloning 700 files). I am using ./manage.py deploy --nosyncdb command like always. Could someone please let me know when

[google-appengine] Re: Stackoverflow

2011-08-03 Thread Vivek Puri
Most of the ideas and answers(objective and discussion categorization) here are great. To give an example, yesterday i needed to know if regex is supported in objective c. First search on google lead to this -

[google-appengine] Stackoverflow

2011-08-01 Thread Vivek Puri
Is it possible to migrate AppEngine group to Stackoverflow or a white label solution - http://stackexchange.com/ . It is becoming impossible to search anything meaningful and identify top threads in the current form of the group. Any good solutions provided are buried quickly below getting stated