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Google App Engine Broken For 4 Hours And Counting

Posted from TechCrunch 262 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators

A little over two hours ago, a Google employee posted a note in this Google Groups thread indicating that Google App Engine was "seeing elevated Datastore latency and error-rates, as well as elevated serving error-rates." He noted that the problem began around 6:30 AM Pacific time and that the team was looking into it. A few minutes later he updated that Google App Engine was going into "unplanned maintenance mode" — over 4 hours later, it's still not back up. That's a long time for any service to be broken, but especially one that is the backbone for many startups' web apps. What's worse i... (original story)