@Alan and @Kenneth - I too was hesitant about moving to the HRD, but I took the plunge five months ago. It's basically how the datastore should be - I haven't seen ANY downtime, latency is much more predictable, it "just works". You're going to love it, trust me.
HRD is NOT for "mission critical" only, it is for any app that you care about at all. The only use for MS is now old apps that aren't used - everything else should be migrated as a matter of the highest priority. Google haven't deprecated MS, probably to avoid yet another PR backlash. But I'm sure privately they want to switch everyone over to HRD as soon as possible, because it causes so many support headaches. And it's not just Google - I'm sure you'll have noticed that you get very little help from this group as soon as you admit you use MS. Basically if you don't care enough about your app to migrate it, why should we care about it either? So to sum up, MIGRATE NOW! Make sure you understand eventual consistency (see http://neogregious.blogspot.com/2011/04/migrating-app-to-high-replication.html and http://neogregious.blogspot.com/2011/06/high-replication-migration-lessons.html), and then GO FOR IT! -- 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.
