What you can do of course, is deploy the new version but don't make it live until the indexes are ready
On 26 June 2010 00:09, Jeff Schwartz <[email protected]> wrote: > LOL. I hear you, man, and sympathize with you completely. There's nothing > more annoying than having to wait for the prod server to complete an update, > especially when you are as you say doing spot testing. > > The other issue I have is with the chance that with every new deployment > the index building phase can take a long time yet your new code is ready to > serve requests. That is totally unacceptable. That is not what I would call > a real production environment. If you cannot deploy your app to production > with the guarantee that all the pieces will come together at the same time > then the system obviously isn't ready for production applications. Who can > deploy an app with code that makes use of database features such as the > availability of an index if they can not guarantee the indexes will be ready > to serve the code. This to me at least is the greatest danger of deploying > an app on appengine. It is equivalent to a banking system where if you > transfer money between accounts only one side of the transaction completes > yet the system treats it like both sides completed. Google needs to correct > this immediately. > > I've said it before and I will say it again, until Google stops calling app > engine a beta they shouldn't charge for it. Period. > > I believe there is great potential in app engine but in its current state > it is not ready for prime time. > > Jeff > > > On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 1:18 PM, peterk <[email protected]> wrote: > >> ..Well, forever meaning several minutes. I'm trying to update my app >> at the moment and it's currently taking 7 minutes and counting. It's >> been like this for the last day. >> >> I can only test some things on a live environment. Several minutes of >> update time makes for terrible turnaround time on tweak testing. It's >> driving me nuts! >> >> Please fix, Google? :\ >> >> -- >> 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]<google-appengine%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. >> >> > > > -- > -- > Jeff > > -- > 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]<google-appengine%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > -- 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.
