[appengine-java] Re: AppEngine Java stability concerns

2009-11-10 Thread Roy
+1 It's critical that the GAE team take these concerns on board. The two selling points of GAE are performance and reliability, yet thanks to the aggressive unloading of idle instances and the constant glitches of the GAE infrastructure, GAE is dramatically underperforming against expectations an

[appengine-java] Re: AppEngine Java stability concerns

2009-11-09 Thread James H
Jerome, I am concerned about uptime and throughput too. Are there any GAE sites that boast large volume yet? It would be reassuring to see stats on such sites that prove the price/performance viability of GAE. How much traffic are you seeing and at what price and performance? On Nov 4, 2:21 p

[appengine-java] Re: AppEngine Java stability concerns

2009-11-04 Thread Rusty Wright
Could you have an automated message (monthly, weekly, whatever) that's posted to the GAE groups that informs people about this downtime notify group? Max Ross (Google) wrote: > Hi Jerome, > > There is planned maintenance going on right now. I'd strongly encourage > you to subscribe to the Ap

[appengine-java] Re: AppEngine Java stability concerns

2009-11-03 Thread Jerome
Hi Ross, Thank you for your response. I will monitor the downtime notify group from now on. Even though this was a planned outage, I am still quite concerned that a complete downtime of over 1h is necessary on your infrastructure... What is the strategy you suggest to your customers to handle thi

[appengine-java] Re: AppEngine Java stability concerns

2009-11-03 Thread Max Ross (Google)
Hi Jerome, There is planned maintenance going on right now. I'd strongly encourage you to subscribe to the App Engine Downtime Notify group where you can learn about these things in advance: http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-downtime-notify Thanks, Max On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 6:18