Overall availability of Google App Engine dropped at least as low as 88.1 percent on Thursday, according to the Google App Engine status dashboard.
Overall availability of Google App Engine dropped at least as low as 88.1 percent on Thursday, according to the Google App Engine status dashboard. Screenshot: Stephen Shankland/CNET News
The cloud computing foundation can run online applications written in Python or Java. The Google App Engine dashboard showed problems serving Java programs — more than half of attempts to request an app's web page resources produced errors at one point — and in the delay to use a programming interface to manage tasks.
The problems appeared not to be permanent, though, and Python applications did not show the same troubles. According to the dashboard, problems began after 9pm PT (5am BST) and were back to normal at about 11pm.
"We were taken down for several hours tonight by this. We had a lot of unhappy users and we felt powerless to do anything about it," said Jason Cahill, a You vs the Internet engineer who works on the Wordament game.
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