On Saturday, June 22, 2013 8:09:22 AM UTC-5, Cesium wrote: > 1) How do I proceed with my investigation to determine the root cause of > this SNAFU. > > I don't know what the root cause is, but I doubt you'll find one. The most probable explanation is that cron got out on the wrong side of the bed that day.
On Saturday, June 22, 2013 8:09:22 AM UTC-5, Cesium wrote: > 2) How do I provide reliable service to my customers in light of this > failure? Do I need to have the cron job send > something to a watchdog service? EC2? Heroku? Or is there a "Hey I have > not been 'pinged' in 10 minutes, so I'm gonna throw a s&*t fit" service? > (Maybe it is called something like a 'button-down-no-longer-down' > detection service?) > > Close. The service you're looking for is called a "Dead Man's Switch" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_switch ) i.e. if your code doesn't hit a "button" in the last x time period (the button could be anything, a database entry, a urlfetch, etc), the monitoring service should assume that the code is down and commence emergency notifications and so forth. It's not too hard to write it yourself (although for obvious reasons you should host it externally). Hosting it on a Compute Engine micro VM is more than enough. On Saturday, June 22, 2013 8:09:22 AM UTC-5, Cesium wrote: > 3) How do I calm my current anxiety and deep seated dread? As well as my > anticipatory anxiety? > > Waffles. With lots of syrup. On Saturday, June 22, 2013 8:09:22 AM UTC-5, Cesium wrote: > PS: I've already sacrificed a unicorn. See > http://imgur.com/gallery/sAYJi4v > > NO!!!! You're supposed to feed Skittles to the unicorn! You've doomed us all! Someone find the mailing address of the App Engine team and mail them a bunch of skittles! ----------------- -Vinny P Technology & Media Advisor Chicago, IL App Engine Code Samples: http://www.learntogoogleit.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
