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		ishener on June 3, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Switched away from App Engine, couldn't be happier for the datastore ops, it maybe insufficient use of memcache. for the front-end instances, i have no idea what can it be. I suspect the numbers are high because of "nice" global distribution of users.

grey on June 3, 2013 [–]

If some requests are taking 30s to service, front ends will be spinning up very often because during those 30s, other requests will be queueing up

rictic on June 3, 2013 | [–]

This is doubly true for an app that hasn't enabled python27 and multithreading.

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