Using namespaces API for testing could affect performance and reliability of my Google App Engine application?

As asked here, I'm looking for a clean solution to setup a staging environment for my Google App Engine application.

Reading the new spec of Namespaces API, Google suggest that a possible use of this new feature is:

• Creating Separate Datastore Instances for Testing and Production

In case I decide to use Namespaces for testing, could a stress test on Staging affect performance and reliability of my Production application?

Imagine a stress test that crawl and store a thousand of RSS feed in a FeedStored Model with transanctions on FeedStoreCounter and so on; could this activity on a staging namespace cause problem when the application try to do the same operation at the sa开发者_开发问答me time on the production namespace?

Also, do the different namespaces share the same quota?

All the data for all App Engine apps is stored in a single Bigtable. As such, data for different namespaces is just as distinct as data between different applications.

If you're also using a separate app version to serve your staging app, the two versions will be running on different app servers, too, so traffic to one version won't affect the other versions.

1. A stress test should not affect performance. App Engine is meant to scale.
2. Namespaced data (and app versions) share the same app quota.