"Can i pay to prevent those errors?" <-- That would be pretty shady.
You will probably always have at least a few request failures when dealing with millions of requests. Is there no retry if a request fails? Robert On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 13:55, nacho <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, i'm developing an application that will have 1 million request per > day at least. > > Every request will be charged to an account of my application. So if > the request fails, the company loses money. > > Reading this group messages i am getting fear that my application will > not work as i spect. For example this post o this other > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_thread/thread/0768f6cd7237829d# > > My question is the following: the paid applications have the same > problems than the non paid applications? Can i pay to prevent those > errors? > > I really want to deploy my app in appengine but the company obviously > can't lose money. > > Is there any solution? > > On 26 sep, 09:49, Joshua Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> 1 random error is completely the norm in google app engine. You need to >> program defensively, because any call to the data store to write data might >> fail. Exception handlers are your friend. This is something you are >> trading off in exchange for automatic scaling, no charges at all during the >> startup phase of your business when you have few customers, and really low >> prices if/when your business takes off. It's a drag that you have to defend >> against the datastore throwing random errors, but in my case, it's >> definitely outweighed by the positives. >> >> What is not the norm is a condition like we've seen the past week. Every >> few months, GAE will have a really bad week like this. It always seems to >> happen just after "scheduled maintenance". I agree that this is completely >> unacceptable, and I'm pretty sure google thinks so, too. I think they tend >> to prioritize fixing the problems over communicating with us when things get >> bad. And that's understandable. Frankly, I couldn't care less about their >> platitudes -- I want the problems fixed. >> >> No service provider is perfect, and it's OK for us all to gripe about GAE >> being imperfect, but jumping to another provider because of one bad week is >> probably something you'll regret. >> >> -Joshua >> >> On Sep 25, 2010, at 4:18 PM, jintx wrote: >> >> > I feel like I am in the twilight zone. After having a great >> > experience with other Google products, I foolishly dove into App >> > Engine development. I now have a product ready for a customer and do >> > not know what to do. Ever since a couple of weeks ago I am seeing >> > NUMEROUS random errors. Way more errors than acceptable. Is even 1 >> > random error from the "same scalable systems that power our own >> > applications" acceptable? >> >> > I feel as if I am in the Twilight Zone when I read this group, seeing >> > constant posts about random errors. Then, I rarely see any response >> > from Google. I would feel a little better if I at least saw a post >> > saying, "Yes, we know that the system is in a very error prone state >> > and are feverishly working to return app engine to a reliable state >> > within the next week." >> >> > Then, I check the status page and it lists everything OK. ??? Are you >> > serious?? Is this status page more for PR purposes than for actual >> > use?? >> >> > Is there any response on these issues? Are they being worked on? Is >> > the design of app engine that most users should just learn to accept >> > and live with random 500's ? The product is 2 years old now and seems >> > extremely buggy. You just recently admitted the data store was below >> > par, and waived everybody's billing for the datastore. Now you >> > reinstate billing, and datastore performance seems to be terrible. Is >> > it time for another upgrade??? If so upgrade it. >> >> > Anybody know of any reputable developers who specialize in porting app >> > engine apps away from app engine? >> >> > -- >> > 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 >> > athttp://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. > > -- 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.
