I share your concern, Thomas... It is also worth comparing the performance of an early stage (#1 in your list) non-optimized app at low volumes on an AWS box versus on GAE (e.g. pageload time)... something to think about, no?
-A -- Adrian Scott, Ph.D. CEO, Founder CoderBuddy http://www.coderbuddy.com/ <-- Create a Google App Engine app in a minute without installing anything On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Thomas Wiradikusuma <[email protected]>wrote: > Typical startup flow is like this: > 1. build an app with the most rapid way (forget about best coding > practices etc) > 2. get traction > 3. get funding > 4. pay someone smarter to refine the code and make it scale > > Even in the 'right way' scenario, people often defer optimization as > "premature optimization is the root of all evil". But developing in > GAE forces us to optimize from the beginning (e.g. must use index, > must denormalize, must make program startup fast). > > That's not all bad, but I think it's making us slow. Partly because > we' accustomed to develop "normal" apps (use SQL with all its bells > and whistles, use Spring for Java, freedom of framework/stack, etc). > What do you guys think? > > > On Nov 4, 6:29 am, Sun Jing <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think there must be a way to optimize, but I agree with you that it's > not > > worth redesigning and rewriting your site. > > -- > 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.
