Re: [google-appengine] Re: Maintenance today?

2011-05-05 Thread Wesley C (Google)
@mars: that's great that you made your app more robust... everyone else should follow! to find out more info, here's a great presentation that we gave at an App Engine meetup happened last year that includes more detail than the official docs:

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Maintenance today?

2011-05-04 Thread Wesley C (Google)
Developers need to build robustness into their apps to withstand read-only periods so that even if you're not notified, your app will still continue to operate. Pls see the sticky post at the top of this forum on how to do this. Also, emails/posts about read-only periods do *not* come to this

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Maintenance today?

2011-05-04 Thread Stephen
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Wesley C (Google) wesc+...@google.com wrote: Also, emails/posts about read-only periods do *not* come to this forum. Why not? The groups are split so that people who are only interested in downtime notifications are not flooded with 1000's of other messages.

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Maintenance today?

2011-05-04 Thread Ikai Lan (Google)
Noted - we'll cross-post the downtime notifications next time. Ikai Lan Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine Blog: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/app_engine Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/appengine On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 3:31 AM, Stephen

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Maintenance today?

2011-05-04 Thread Mars
Thanks Wesley. My app has been built to withstand the read-only period. Just curious why there weren't any prior announcement as usual that's all. -Mars -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to

[google-appengine] Re: Maintenance today?

2011-05-03 Thread Jerome
Unfortunately, yes. From IRC a few minutes ago: (5:07:35 PM) ikai_google: MS datastore going into read only soon I had the same reaction as you: no email, hopefully they are cancelling for today. Jerome On May 3, 4:21 pm, Mars mars...@askmymob.com wrote: The calendar indicates that there