I thought it was amusing that the PHP guy said "People who use Python are by nature tinkerers." That made me chuckle.
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 10:59, Joshua Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/07/inside_google_app_engine/ > > Nice overview, and I didn't see any glaring errors. I'll be keeping a link > to this to pass along whenever anyone asks me what GAE is (and isn't). An > interesting observation was that many apps spill into non-GAE infrastructure > when they need some functionality that GAE doesn't offer. That's true of > several of our apps: one of my apps interfaces with S3 heavily because I > wrote it before BlobStore existed; another uses GAE only as a massively > scalable front-end "lobby" and scheduler, for access to non-GAE servers (in a > private data center, and in EC2 when the private data center fills up). > > Also, it was interesting to see the coverage of App Scale. I was familiar > with AETyphoon, but not App Scale. Nice to know there are options if google > makes some really bad decisions about their pricing model in the coming > months. > > -Joshua > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
