[google-appengine] the fate of a write during an unplanned downtime

2010-06-10 Thread dsw
There should be a better place for me to post this as it is a comment on the recent downtime notification, which is actually a different google group. (1) The recent downtime announcement said: > We want to stress that these unapplied > writes do not impact the transactional consistency of applic

[google-appengine] a fundamental increase in App Engine transparency and locality is needed

2009-03-05 Thread dsw
I have long wanted to build apps on Google App Engine and have learned a lot about it in preparation for doing so. However the one problem is if I have a customer and their app goes down for an hour and they call me and say "what happened?" and "how can we prevent that in the future?" my only res