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I had a lot of great feedback on my AppEngine post the other day. We put our trust in the AppEngine team to keep things running smoothly while we work on our app and live the rest of our lives. Today is pretty quiet around the Gripe virtual offices (aka Skype channels): it’s Thanksgiving in US and I’m getting hit by a cold too hard to do much today besides write a short post.

We had a great surprise this morning. The View episode we were featured in was in re-runs this morning and we had a huge traffic spike. Nobody noticed until about 30 minutes in, since  everything was scaling automatically and the site was still serving up as quickly as ever:

There’s been a handful of articles critical of Google’s AppEngine that have bubbled up to the top of Hacker News lately. I’d like to throw our story into the ring as well, but as a story of a happy customer rather than a switcher.