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
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