When saving entities to App Engine’s datastore at a high write rate, avoid monotonically increasing values such as timestamps. Generally speaking, you don’t have to worry about this sort of thing until your application hits 100s of queries per second. Once you’re in that ballpark, you may want to examine potential hotspots in your application that can increase datastore latency. To explain why thi
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