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 -- 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.
