I don't think just having the memcache not work on the dev server
would have much of an impact, because the dev datastore is fast
anyway. However I definitely see a use for a "slow mode" where API
calls take around the same time as they do in production, including
some occasional crazy delays.

On May 3, 1:45 pm, tempy <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just found myself writing code that would simulate deadlineexceeded
> errors and such, when I thought - wouldn't it be great if you could
> ask the dev server to sow some chaos? I'll never be able to accurately
> simulate outages, slow-downs, high-error rates, variable accuracy of
> the infrastructure-availability API, and all the possible varieties of
> misbehavior from the GAE infrastructure. But Google probably can.
>
> What I'm imagining is asking the dev server to execute certain
> "degraded service" scenarios. So you could ask it to simulate
> "memcache instability" which would result in an unusually high number
> of cache misses, slow cache responses, and the occasional exception.
> Or you could ask it to simulate a "read only datastore" event. And so
> on - I think you guys get my point.
>
> Anyone else think this would be incredibly useful?
>
> -mike

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