Over the years Google App Engine has made tremendous progress on adding features and making the production environment more robust. All this is very much noted and appreciated even though they came along with the recent steep price hike.
At the same time though, the SDK server has been getting slower and slower and the pre-deployment development cycle has become really tedious for anything but the smallest projects. I want to remind to Google that history has shown that in the platform space you do not become successful unless you capture the developers mindset and you will not capture the developers unless you give a descent development environment to get their job done. For some this means, a fancy IDE, but almost for everybody this primarily means an environment that does not slow you down. So, I highly recommend, among all the other great things in the roadmap to devote some effort to go back and look at the SDK performance and fix the low hanging fruits as soon as possible. I and others, have posted notes with examples of performance degradation from release to release---that went mostly unanswered by the GAE team---but I think that with 1.6.0 it has become really unbearable. Thanks for reading through, PK http://www.gae123.com PS My experience is with the Python SDK only, I cannot talk about the Java or GO -- 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/-/oXrcCXZFgPYJ. 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.
