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A comment on Fallacies of Distributed Computing.

Re:Fallacies of Distributed Computing by fraserharris on Thursday April 21, 2011 @12:17PM (#2471189)
Open question: does Google App Engine have automatic redundancy across multiple datacenters?
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Re:Fallacies of Distributed Computing by tybris on Thursday April 21, 2011 @12:38PM (#2471261)
Probably, but it's not like they're immune to failure.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2010/02/google-app-engine-... http://techcrunch.com/2009/07/02/google-app-engine-broken-fo...

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Re:Fallacies of Distributed Computing by brown9-2 on Thursday April 21, 2011 @08:25PM (#2472890)
I don't believe that AppEngine offers the choice of what region/zone your app runs in, so they would have to.
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