Two thoughts: First, GAE's technology doesn't scale down to small projects, and its support model doesn't scale up to large ones. That spells trouble, to me.
Second, I suspect Google is running experiments on GAE. By this I don't just mean playing around with technology; I mean the specific experimentation framework and process that they employ for internal software components. Yahoo did the same thing when I was there. Basically it means that rolling out a new implementation of something involves rolling it out to 100 people, then 1000, then 10,000, then everyone. If it looks like things are going south you pull the plug. That works for products you own and manage because there are internal feedback mechanisms. When the products are owned and managed by 3rd parties, though, it sucks. Don't experiment with my platform, please. -- 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/-/JeH1Gqw5YNsJ. 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.
