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Re:Happy Holidays from the App Engine team - 1.4.0 SDK released by _stephan on Thursday December 02, 2010 @06:14PM (#1964068)
Can maybe someone comment on the current reliability of GAE? What people write on this topic, for example in the comments on http://www.carlosble.com/?p=719&rewrite, sounds pretty scary. Apparently the status page at http://code.google.com/status/appengine doesn't reflect people's experiences.

Is it possible to work around the reported reliability issues? After all, what good is scalability without reliability?

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Re:Happy Holidays from the App Engine team - 1.4.0 SDK released by kmfrk on Thursday December 02, 2010 @10:53PM (#1964671)
This has been discussed a lot on HN lately - it was quite the meme for a while.

I did a quick !hn search for you[1] and saw these three popular submissions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1934563

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1931456

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1927903

The general impression, as I've understood it so far, is that App Engine has its limitations, but Google makes you well aware of them, so adapt to them and don't get frustrated or surprised by them two months into development, or host your service somewhere else like AWS.

[1]: http://searchyc.com/submissions/app+engine?page=1&sort=b...

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Re:Happy Holidays from the App Engine team - 1.4.0 SDK released by herrherr on Friday December 03, 2010 @03:50AM (#1965218)
As a reference point:

Our service (getmetricmail.com) which is running on GAE had an uptime of 99.97% in November.

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