Hello, I have been getting a huge number of blobstore errors today when trying to form-post with create_upload_url(). The function clearly works (sometimes), but with close to a 90% failure rate. It's clear from a bit of searching that I am not alone in this, but my main issue isn't with the error itself, but rather that the System Status is pretending like everything is fine.
Google, the fact that your product is having problems is annoying but slightly understandable (it is a Beta product after all, even if you are charging me for it), but you need to owe up to your availability issues. Developers need to be able to make informed decisions about whether or not to use App Engine, and right now you are misleading us by pretending to have a far higher uptime than is reflected in reality. You have an amazing product here. Myself along with countless other developers are incredibly impressed by what you have accomplished. The fact that we are developing app after app on a platform that throws so many 500-errors and so much sporadic latency our way is a great testament to that. If it wasn't such a good idea in theory, we wouldn't be here. It's high time you took availability more seriously. I have read time and time again that the sporadic 500-errors are to be considered as "working as intended", but I don't think I will ever be willing to live with that. _Please_ refocus your development efforts from new features to stability. The features don't have value without stability. // Kim Lundgren -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
