Hi All, I’m looking for a reality check before diving into developing (in python) a major application for our web site (technically this is a ground-up rewrite of an aging EC2 based app). There are a lot of things that I like about GAE: easy development and deployment, (mostly) worry free data storage, world wide response caching, etc. And I’ve already programmed some smaller test apps with no major problems. However now its “rubber hits the road” time and the decision is not yet a slam dunk. Here are my concerns: 1. As far as I can tell there are few people using the the blobstore to serve video. I haven’t had a problem with it, but I don’t feel I have the safety in numbers factor either. 2. Video transcoding is an essential component. Currently I’m going off-GAE to Zencoder -- but this gives me one extra point of failure, and an awkward data flow to round-trip back to the blobstore. There could be other off-GAE processing requirements later such as 3D rendering. 3. I don’t yet know how to serve Flash content from GAE. I assume PyAMF is my tool, but I don’t know enough about it to assess how much effort it will take to get up-to-speed and implement my Flash to Datastore connections. 4. My app traffic and database size are probably on the small side compared to most commercial sites that would use GAE. This could be good -- I benefit from all the big guys hammering the platform, or bad -- my particular needs don't get Google love.
Opinions? Is GAE the right platform for my app? John PS: Appoximate app parameters are: 1. Rapid and flexible development is a high priority. Therefore we could trade operational dollars to reduce development expenses (within reason). 2. Up to 2000 world wide "member" users. These users would upload short videos (~10 seconds, ~10MB) and other data at least a couple times a day. 3. About 5 main pages that are member accessible which serve mostly moderately complex Flash content. 4. Facebook Connect with up to 100,000 worldwide fans. Fans will access the site and view a few short videos daily. 10% of this access will probably be from mobile devices. 5. Primary database tables are: “Members” (<2000 entries), “Tasks” (<3000 entries), and “Uploads” (<100000 entries) 6. Only moderate security demands: (No financial transactions, uses Facebook or OpenID login, low profile target for bot or DDOS threats.) -- 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-appeng...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
