Hi there, I know the GAE team is exceptionally competent and committed to the reliability of the platform, so this message is only to understand the "why" a bit better.
Obviously reliability will increase over time. I assume the end result will be more reliable than most alternatives, but it'd be nice to get more insight into the challenges you're facing. I do read the mail and blog posts you put up - much appreciated. Questions I can think of now, maybe others have more/better questions: - Why are there so many system-wide failures? Are they single-point-of- failure in nature, or do they emerge due to the overall complexity? - Is there no way to prevent an entire datacenter from becoming unhealthy? - If not, does the App Engine have to have committed datacenters, or could it e.g. run on fewer machines inside datacenters shared with other services? I would imagine the latter is quicker to move - fewer resources, and maybe could be located closer to users. - What are your reliability goals? Regards, Richard --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
