+1 for barryhunter's first comment. Four years of development on GAE suggests, that in general, parity between the dev server and production has not been a problem. Uploading an app has been expedited recently and is adequate for its purposes but it will need to become sub-second to be considered as a development cycle option.
Here is some real hard data, from a real app, with real functionality used by real users. Who can wait for one minute, for each set of edits, in the 21st century? $ appcfg.py --secure update ... Application: ...; version: 1-7-31 Host: appengine.google.com Starting update of app: ..., version: 1-7-31 Scanning files on local disk. .. Scanned 1500 files. Cloning 191 static files. Cloned 100 files. Cloning 1538 application files. ... Compilation starting. Compilation completed. Starting deployment. Checking if deployment succeeded. Will check again in 1 seconds. ... Deployment successful. Checking if updated app version is serving. ... Uploading index definitions. Uploading cron entries. Uploading task queue entries. *real 1m0.530s* user 0m4.110s sys 0m0.320s It also allows to develop while disconnected from the internet. And if you apply the suggested work arounds the dev server's performance becomes great for dev. purposes. Regarding the comment: "I thought the SDK was just something that was invented so you could tell your boss… “If Google ever kills GAE they’ll give 180 days notice and we could run on the SDK for another 180 days, plenty of time to port the code to Azure”" This was exactly what it was not invented to be :-) Even when the notice is three years... PK http://www.gae123.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/VOrXjQoaQqsJ. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
