Dirty issues with GAE left unanswered

[Andrius A]

Hello,

I've been trying to use new features such as Backends and Channels in order to minimize the costs, and found minor issues which makes me wonder how could GAE team let this go from preview release unnoticed.

Here is the list of them which are still unanswered:

1) Broken backends in SDK:

http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-python/browse_thread/thread/cf37410a6cf45283/425548774212402f?q=#425548774212402f

2) Unexplained random frontend response latency:

http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_thread/thread/ad3c7473b34152ba/d187cb8acc295066?q=#d187cb8acc295066

3) Memcache expiry time setting bug:

http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_thread/thread/d0dca5913d33f3d1/bfd9117ad45ba516?q=#bfd9117ad45ba516

4) Channel API not working in backends:

http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5123 (Issue raised in May 27)

I will be definitely asking for the refund because those issues stopped me developing in order to optimize my apps to reduce new billing costs.

Regards,

Andrius

[N. Rosencrantz]

+2:
http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3258
http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5165
My main problem that stops me from calling my system "real" is that backup is not working. If I have I data failure I won't have a backup. There is nothing that stops my development so I still think GAE is the one best web application development platform ever, it's just that if my backup system isn't working I really don't think it can call my system a real professional system. In my case it is an issue
Thanks
Nick Rosencrantz

[Martin Waller]

Hello, I would second that. The backup process is almost non-existent! Now we are paying for this service we should have access to some backup mechanism. I'd like to see something on the servers where we could, at the click of a button, create a save point and wide back to save points. I don't want to have to download my data to my local machine.

Martin

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[Vlad]

You have to get out of the frame of mind that assumes - "GAE team released feature X. Therefore X is well tested, properly integrated with the rest GAE features and fills a gap in the overall platform roadmap." You cannot make those assumptions. I am sorry, I know it sounds negative, but that is just fact. Developers are left to figure out for themselves which features are usable and more importantly which features belong to GAE as platform and have a chance to survive long term. I could pull out my own laundry list of features which are "almost there" but I do not want to write a long rant. Hopefully you get me drift.

[Andrin von Rechenberg]

Andrius, you need to file bugs if something is broken.

You can't expect the AppEngine Team to keep track

of every single mail on the list. That's why the have an

issue tracker.

http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/list

-Andrin

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Vlad <vlad.tr...@gmail.com> wrote:

You have to get out of the frame of mind that assumes - "GAE team released feature X. Therefore X is well tested, properly integrated with the rest GAE features and fills a gap in the overall platform roadmap." You cannot make those assumptions. I am sorry, I know it sounds negative, but that is just fact. Developers are left to figure out for themselves which features are usable and more importantly which features belong to GAE as platform and have a chance to survive long term. I could pull out my own laundry list of features which are "almost there" but I do not want to write a long rant. Hopefully you get me drift.

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[Andrius A]

Thanks Andrin, I did.