There is a retry, but what about if the appengine stays down over 10 minutes for example?
On 26 sep, 17:40, Robert Kluin <[email protected]> wrote: > "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/... > > > 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 > > 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. 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