Very true. The datastore unreliability was a real nightmare. I was getting periods of 60 seconds where it was unusable...
But it does appear to be fixed now.
Re:Goodbye, Google App Engine
by nischalshetty on Monday November 22, 2010 @03:18AM
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The Datastore problems have indeed been fixed and things have been smooth since the fix.
We (http://gri.pe) are still happy on AppEngine, even though September was rough.