It's just a matter of time before GAE has another major outage. Will that materially change your decision to be on GAE? I don't think it should; the cloud is young and reliability is not (yet, if ever) at "dial-tone" reliability.
saidimu On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Calvin <[email protected]> wrote: > Schadenfreude was exactly the word I was going to use when I considered > posting this news. I love that word. > > I've got to say that I feel really good after reading the outage postmortem > yesterday and then hearing this news this morning. > > Whenever there's an App Engine outage, or increase in error rate, it seems > really dire to us because we get a lot of people charging to this forum to > alert people to the outage. But yesterday's postmortem explained that while > the March 8th outage lasted a while, it didn't effect everyone, and Google > was aware of the problem pretty quickly. > > For me the bottom line is that I'd rather have a Googler's pager go off > when there's a problem than have to set up elaborate failsafes on EC2. > > -- > 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.
