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?
>
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