> I've been there and I'm happy to leave this job to the professionals.
It sure helps that you have a batphone to the GAE datastore team. Or is that a different Jeff Schnitzer? saidimu On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Jeff Schnitzer <[email protected]> wrote: > Easy to say, not so easy to do :-) > > All that frantic running-around-in-panic that GAE engineers and ops > people do when something goes wonky inside the datastore? That would > be you right now, trying to figure out how to failover your database > (and any other persistent data) to a different datacenter... and then > when the original comes back up you get to merge any lost > transactions. > > I've been there and I'm happy to leave this job to the professionals. > > Jeff > > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Derrick Schneider > <[email protected]> wrote: > > While it's certainly unfortunate for companies that have bet on EC2, > they'd > > be smarter to distribute their servers a bit so that a single data center > > outage does not take out their entire company. > > > > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Jeff Schnitzer <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> I'm not suggesting schadenfreude here, but for all those folks > >> doubting the viability of appengine for reliability reasons: > >> > >> > >> > http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/04/21/amazon-ec2-goes-down-taking-with-it-reddit-foursquare-and-quora/ > >> > >> Amazon's North Virginia datacenter tripped and fell over in the early > >> AM this morning, and several major sites (Foursquare and Quora) are > >> still down more than *eight hours* later. Ouch. > >> > >> You can read the gory details here: http://status.aws.amazon.com/ > >> > >> 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]. > >> For more options, visit this group at > >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Writer. Programmer. Puzzle Designer. > > http://www.obsessionwithfood.com > > > > -- > > 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. > > -- 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.
