*App Engine Weekly Community Update #1* Dear App Engine Community,
As discussed on IRC, each week I will bring some news and metrics about the App Engine community activity. Thanks a lot to +Rodrigo Moraes for reviewing this with his sharp journalist eyes. *Highlights* 1.5.2 Release Notes http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2011/07/app-engine-152-sdk-released.html Postmortem: Java App Engine outage, July 14, 2011 http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2011/07/postmortem-java-app-engine-outage-july.html Go for App Engine is now generally available http://blog.golang.org/2011/07/go-for-app-engine-is-now-generally.html Tipfy is looking for a new maintainer http://groups.google.com/group/tipfy/browse_thread/thread/1359e76c69e89060 *Hot questions* Flask vs webapp2 for Google App Engine http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6774371/flask-vs-webapp2-for-google-app-engine Bad Performance for Dedupe of 2 million records using mapreduce on Appengine http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6770781/bad-performance-for-dedupe-of-2-million-records-using-mapreduce-on-appengine What is the best way of describing day of week? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6763623/what-is-the-best-way-of-describing-day-of-week *IRC and Hangouts* IRC Office Hours on Wednesday, transcript there: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/google-appengine/ZzUDaN226bU/discussion +Guido van Rossum and +Ikai Lan held community hangouts and posted some followup on Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/1/115212051037621986145/posts/TmU4Sdx7yT3 https://plus.google.com/u/1/107011265359512082824/posts/42G7ZiXkAtR *1:1 with one member of the App Engine team* Who? Sumit Arora aka sumeets@, I'm with the App Engine SRE team What? As SRE, our mission is to balance availability, reliability and performance with agility of our services. Which essentially means: we work on developing and deploying systems that help us measure availability and reliability; monitor outages or degradation of service as well as capacity planning. In addition, we gatekeep all changes going to our production infrastructure, to ensure changes are rolled out without impacting end users Where? I work out of the Sydney Australia Office. When? I've been with this team for about 6 months now. Why? I'm passionate about the cloud computing domain in general... and App Engine represents a pioneer in the that domain, because it gives developers the means to spend their time where it matters the most, i.e. developing applications and not worrying about infrastructure to run it on Emacs or Vi? vi Python, Java or Go? Python and Java In that order. I will use python over java any day mostly because of my sysadmin background. And I’m just getting started with Go. Recommended App Engine framework, library or tool ? Django, without a doubt. Fun thought? I find it very ironic and amusing that every time a smoke detector goes off, the first thing people want to do is fix the smoke detector. There is nothing wrong with it, it's doing what its supposed to be doing... Fix the fire instead! Sadly this is true of monitoring and alerting as well, in large. *Issue tracking* 47 new issues were reported in the public issue tracker: - 31 Defects - 10 Production issues - 6 Feature request - 20 were Acknowledged and still need to be reproduced - 10 have been Accepted and escalated to the Engineer team when necessary - 17 of those issues were not actionable (Invalid, WontFix or Duplicate) 19 issues (including 8 from this week) have been fixed. All the Productions issues backlog (68 issues) has been triaged, and the New queue for Production issue is now empty. *Groups* [appengine-python] 115 messages in 25 threads 64 % of posts answered within 2 days Top Posters: - robert.kluin (9) - proppy (7) - ninjin32 (7) [appengine-java] 177 messages in 51 threads 43% of posts answered within 2 days Top Posters: - ikai (11) - venugopal.vassiredy (6) - durant.didier (4) [appengine] 330 messages in 84 threads 61% of posts answered within 2 days Top Posters: - robert.kluin (20) - proppy (16) - jeff (7) Feedbacks are welcome on this new format, let me know what you are looking forward to see in next week App Engine Community Update. -- Johan Euphrosine (proppy) Developer Programs Engineer Google Developer Relations -- 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.
