Hi Richard, I actually played your game and probably encountered the exact issue. BTW, it's a cool addictive game.
I agree that eventually consistent window should ideally be more steady than now. I have passed your issue to the engineering team. I'll get back to you when I have some updates. -- Takashi On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Richard <[email protected]> wrote: > The thing is.... GAE does a wonderful job. It has been fine for a year or > so. Now suddenly, we are getting bitten by 'eventual consistency'. And not > at peak load either! This is hitting us at the lowest load time and at the > same time each day. > > So, maybe we were just lucky before this..... but it still sucks to have > something work for a year or so, and then suddenly find out you might need > to consider moving to a different stack. > > > On Wednesday, August 1, 2012 7:14:19 AM UTC-4, Richard Watson wrote: >> >> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Jeff Schnitzer <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > Anything that involves batching in a frontend risks orphaning data in >> > the frontend... there's just no efective way to ensure that batching >> > happens and that the queue is purged when "done". >> >> It's definitely not bulletproof, but I'd investigate whether I could >> achieve "good enough" for 99% and be happy that for the rest the >> client could re-request the score if it didn't reflect their own >> correct value. >> >> As you say, if clients can connect directly to some other more >> reliable service, maybe that's the way to go. Mixing platforms (GAE >> url fetch to Amazon SQS, or whatever) would leave me worrying about >> extra points of failure - you'll now fail if either GAE or >> Amazon/Heroku go down. >> >> Pity. I would imaging a back-end for a game with hundreds of users is >> something GAE should eat up. >> >> Richard > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/MpsNezxGjpkJ. > > 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. -- Takashi Matsuo -- 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.
