Josh, I think you've hit the nail on the head..how much is Google willing to invest? GAE will never be a core priority for a search/advertising company!
rvjcallanan On Dec 5, 8:32 pm, Josh Heitzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think the answer really depends on how much Google is willing to > invest in GAE. Eventually could be two years from now or ten years > from now, but if its the later they may miss the boat considering > there are numerous big names and no names all moving into this space. > One of those big names is Microsoft, and while they are just getting > into this space, one thing they do really well is getting application > developers to target their platforms. In my opinion Google has a long > way to go in that respect. > > After using GAE's platform for the last few months I can honestly say > that the only thing I like about it is that I haven't had to pay for > the hosting of my app. Sure getting an app going that fits with-in > the quite limited confines of what GAE supports well is quite easy, > but it doesn't take much to smack into GAE's walls and then it becomes > very much a square peg in round whole experience where doing things > that would be quite simple on other platforms is quite difficult on > GAE or even impossible without getting shutdown due to going over CPU > quota. > > Josh > > On Dec 5, 10:42 am, rvjcallanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am about to take the GAE plunge (at least in the experimentation > > sense). > > I understand the current irritations and I am hopeful that these will > > be overcome in due course > > > But I am very curious how far Google can take this thing... > > > A key question on everyone's mind: > > > Can we assume that GAE developers will eventually be able to produce > > GAE apps with similar complexity, reliability, scalability and > > performance ballparks as Gmail, subject of course to hosting fees? > > > If the answer to that question is "YES", then I am am convinced that > > GAE will eventually be able to host sophisticated financial > > applications that are not currently in the GAE sweetspot, e.g. > > accounts, payroll, etc > > > Or would it be more realistic to assume that GAE developers will never > > really be able to leverage what Gmail's developers can leverage? > > > Looking beyond the Gmail comparison, I see lots of problems with the > > GAE datastore for financial applications e.g. the absence of joins, > > aggregation, etc. I understand that these limitations are inherent to > > the BigTable paradigm, yet I already see posts by developers showing > > how these limitations can be overcome. Solutions tend to revolve > > around de-normalisation and other forms of data redundancy together > > with a sizable smattering of code trickery. All very, very botchy and > > alien to the GAE philosophy of removing much of the the tedium of web > > development. > > > I am wondering if it will ever be possible to write an abstraction > > layer that will present the underlying GAE datastore as an SQL > > database albeit at a cost in terms of data efficiency, CPU cycles and > > bandwidth...or is this completely missing the point? > > > Bear in mind that I am thinking a few years down the road. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
