Monday, April 23, 2012

Simulating Google app engine maintenance period in development environment

During scheduled maintenance period outages, the high replication datastore will work normally, but memcache will not be available.



Is there a way this scenario can be simulated in local development environment?



More specifically, can we run dev_appserver.py with memcache disabled to test the maintenance period behavior?



As of now, I go to development console and flush out the memcache after every request, to get a rough idea of how the app behaves during server maintenance. I am hoping there must be some better way to test this scenario.





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