I run an application that usually triggers a heavy update every 2 hours, by queuing heavy tasks, using the cron mecanism. This has been working well for months.
However, the december 16th of 2012, this url has been called (by user-agent AppEngine-Google) every few seconds between 15:17 and 15:51, launching hundreds of heavy tasks. This resulted in an explosion of my quotas and forced me to switch to the paid version of the application, in order for my website to stay alive.
Anybody having the same issue? Any idea of what happened and how I could avoid this problem in the future?