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Google App Engine, that allows its users to create interactive Web applications on Google’s Infrastructure has been facing downtime since last day. The engine in its “preview release� mode was launched in April with a hope of attracting huge number of programmers.
According to TechCrunch, all third party apps were offline and developers were unable to log into their management console.
This morning at around 6:30am PDT we experienced a datastore outage during which a small percentage of requests returned errors. Between 9:00 and 11:30am, and again at 12:40pm, the percentage of requests returning errors increased significantly.
There isn’t any news about this downtime problem at blog of Google App Engine . But according to an updated notice the problem has been fixed and applications are now running normally.
At around 1:40pm we were able to isolate the issue, and requests are currently serving normally.
This outage was the result of a bug in our datastore servers and was triggered by a particular class of queries. We have isolated the bug and we’re currently working on a fix. Going forward, we’re also working to further isolate queries so that in the future a bug like this won’t affect the stability of the system as a whole.
Google is a service with some scalable expertise and people do not expect these kinds of bugs and errors from it. Such type of errors can proved to be a great hindrance in the popularity of new apps and it might affect public’s reliability of adopting new technology platforms.
