Google App Engine is now much faster, after latest maintenance

Our app (<a href="http://gri.pe" rel="nofollow">http://gri.pe</a>) feels a lot snappier after this latest bit of datastore maintenance. We've been using as much memcache as possible to avoid datastore access because prior to this maintenance, datastore access was spiky and even the simplest of queries had a small chance of timing out.<p>I can say for sure that some of our datastore-heavy cron jobs were taking &#62; 200ms, but are around 70ms now.<p>It's a shame that the stats for &#62; 12hrs ago seem to have been wiped. I bet we'd be seeing a marked improvement on our ms/request stat.

As any ops guy will tell you, this is the finest form of graph porn there is.

This headline should say "GETs to the datastore are now much faster".<p>EDIT: I neglected to see the other datastore figures.

I just tried a high traffic site that runs on App Engine (appbrain.com). It used to feel a bit slow, and now it really flies.<p>It definitely makes me reconsider using App Engine for new projects.<p>Disclaimer: I have no connection to Appbrain aside from meeting the developers once.

Good news but I really hope Google figures out how to solve DeadlineExceededError. They are popping up from time to time for my app (<a href="http://www.knowcase.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.knowcase.com</a>) and I don't think it's datastore related.

They even solved a bug with the datastore quota not being properly updated after a massive delete of entities.<p>Kudos to the team, and I, too, hope that the latency will remain this low <i>forever and ever</i>…

It's still too early to tell. This would not be the first time that speed improves after a maintenance and then it slowly gets worse every week until it looks almost like before the maintenance.

This site, probably NSFW, makes use of the datastore (for the thumbnails) and it's now much faster, it's a pity we can't compare speeds with the old latency.<p><a href="http://wallres.saiswa.com/?tags=girls&#38;pagina=23" rel="nofollow">http://wallres.saiswa.com/?tags=girls&#38;pagina=23</a>

Looking at the error rates, I wonder what happened at around 12pm? (Screenshots: <a href="http://grab.by/7gJ4" rel="nofollow">http://grab.by/7gJ4</a> <a href="http://grab.by/7gJ5" rel="nofollow">http://grab.by/7gJ5</a> <a href="http://grab.by/7gJh" rel="nofollow">http://grab.by/7gJh</a>)

The sense that the app store has been a neglected, second-tier priority is deep enough now that it will take them a while to regain significant developer trust.<p>AWS is very close to a de-facto standard now.<p>Edit: I mean app engine, the hosted web service. Not the app store. Thanks.

the app engine applications gallery is now gone, too. coincidence???<p><a href="http://appgallery.appspot.com/results?topapps=true" rel="nofollow">http://appgallery.appspot.com/results?topapps=true</a>

that 's great :) hopefully, now they can work on improving support for JDO/JPA and release those great features announced in Google I/O.

thank you google! wow, this is amazing.

I expected something more than a graphic.