On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 12:42 AM, Thomas Wiradikusuma <wiradikus...@gmail.com> wrote: > > You and Mr. Joe just happen to work on the same idea, at roughly the > same time. > For simplicity sake, both of you are competent Java programmers with > same skills. > He decides to use AWS and you go with GAE.
In this case, Joe is doomed. Given teams with equivalent expertise, the GAE team will be significantly more productive. There are exceptions to this - some problem domains (sophisticated geo, analytics) are more difficult to do without specialized storage systems - but in the general case, GAE development is faster. I'll be deploying code while Joe will be working on getting his database configured properly. Of course, if you're sandbagging the GAE team with coming up to speed from scratch, then sure it will probably take longer. But this is an argument for never learning new technology - expertise gets you into a local maxima of efficiency, and only by climbing other (sometimes tortuous) learning curves do we learn that the "old way" actually sucked. The GAE curve is worth it. Jeff -- 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 google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
