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Re:“GCP automatically LOWERED our quota, causing an incident“ by tyingq on Saturday June 10, 2023 @03:31PM (#36274162)
> accumulate locally

Is that an option in AppEngine? The memcache docs seem to indicate the free tier has undocumented eviction policies.

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Re:“GCP automatically LOWERED our quota, causing an incident“ by showdeddd on Saturday June 10, 2023 @05:12PM (#36275152)
You have to implement that with your own code but it isn't much more than a dict/map and a timestamp for last update.
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Re:“GCP automatically LOWERED our quota, causing an incident“ by tyingq on Saturday June 10, 2023 @05:16PM (#36275200)
Same-ish problem, though. You wouldn't know for sure the instance will run again...your dict/map data can be dropped. I don't see any sort of instance timeout callback where you could guard against that.
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Re:“GCP automatically LOWERED our quota, causing an incident“ by showdeddd on Saturday June 10, 2023 @05:20PM (#36275231)
I think it's negligible. The only metrics you lose are on rare scaledowns and they are averaged out anyways. GCP likes to keep instances idle for a long time.
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