Our experience on py 2.5, 2.7 and Go is a lot different from Java guys. Pros: - being able to use Task queues (+ deferred API) and Cron jobs in form of async HTTP requests is just awesome. - I haven't seen anything like Guido's NDB for what concerns async and "parallel" execution, plus its caching, autobatching even on url fetches - LOTs of useful services, which you use via simple APIs - you totally focus on your app code and not hardware/systems admin. What others call AE limitations actually often helps you deliver a better experience to your users. Not always but again, in our experience, most of the cases. I actually want to thank AE team for imposing some limits (though the real reasons of limitations are totally different) - when something goes wrong you just wait for SRE team to fix it - nice support for (unit) testing out of the box. Both Go and Python. Actually Java too. - Backends are actually of a great value when you need to "talk to" third parties via some API (i.e. not user-facing requests)
Cons: - some of the services are still a little buggy and their bugfixing is not that fast in some cases (e.g. Channels API 400 errors) - Users API is awesome but unfortunately works with either Google Accounts or OpenID. Either way, I'd love to see it supporting OAuth 2.0 and/or "abstract" third parties - I'd love to see a better monitoring system, though I do understand this is a complex system to say the least. plus, I think someone mentioned. - Examples are too simple, e.g. Hello World. So, you'll need to actually figure it out yourself. This is not the case with Go land - their examples are closer to real world. Overall we're more than happy with AE. It saved us tons of money so far. -- alex PS can't wait for Endpoints API and Compute Engine GA. Unfortunately I didn't get into trusted testers (was hoping for Endpoints API) -- 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/-/sZkYyDOYppMJ. 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.
