We've been on Appengine for years, and one of the un-intuitive benefits is that when something goes wrong, all you can do is sit back and tell your customers "a team of the best sysadmins in the world are working on it right now".
I've met many people who hate that abdication of responsibility, and would prefer to be heroically hacking solutions at 3am when their database replication fails. Maybe they feel they have to be punished for failing their customers.
My advice is keep testing GC, because in my experience it is very reliable. And once you realise that, the peace of mind is awesome.
I've met many people who hate that abdication of responsibility, and would prefer to be heroically hacking solutions at 3am when their database replication fails. Maybe they feel they have to be punished for failing their customers.
My advice is keep testing GC, because in my experience it is very reliable. And once you realise that, the peace of mind is awesome.