Some of you are probably aware of the Raspberry Pi single board computer<http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs> that runs Linux and Python quite well. When I first heard of it I had lots of ideas of what to use it for and one of those was to run App Engine on it. Why? Because I can. :)
My Raspberry Pi arrived in the mail yesterday and today I got the Python App Engine SDK running on it. The Pi has a 700Mhz ARM processor and 256MB of RAM and my small Debian (Raspbian) install has about 190MBs of RAM free once it is up and running. I am not running a desktop environment, just bash. My initial tests have worked out pretty well with simple apps and as time allows I am going to try building a larger app and deploying to the production servers directly from the Pi. I am curious how the performance compares to a standard F1 App Engine production instance. I may run some tests to see. The Raspberry Pi was developed as an inexpensive device to help teach kids how to program. App Engine is a great platform for developing web applications. I think it is a good match at an incredibly low price. -- 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/-/14lnjwk1RQEJ. 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.
