Hi Mike and Kaan, Thank you very much for your replies.
Mike congratulations on the success of shoesofprey - I have been very interested in your story as what you have achieved and the direction you are heading in is similar to what we are trying to achieve with our do it yourself wardrobe products and our wardrobe designer. Thank you for the inspiration! I have come from a PHP background, but since finding out about Google App Engine I am now planning on switching to Python as it just seems like such a solid and reliable infrastructure. The scaling is also a big bonus. Thanks again for taking the time to reply to me, it is very much appreciated :) Cheers, Adam On Thursday, March 14, 2013 10:08:32 AM UTC+10, Mike wrote: > > Hi Adam and Kaan > > Yes, we still use AppEngine for our website, which is written in Python. > Our 3D shoe designer infrastructure though is hosted elsewhere for now. > > We're big fans of AppEngine!! It's great not having to think about > infrastructure, and having rich APIs already installed. (Disclosure: I'm a > former goog software engineer, so quite biased!) :-) > > Not only is the platform a pleasure to use, but it's scaled beautifully > when we've needed it to, for example the time when a 16 year old video > blogger sent 1/2 million people to our site: > http://www.22michaels.com/2010/03/juicystar07-and-world-of-new-media.html > > Kaan - that's interesting it was slow! Where are you based? How slow was > it? We're also using Google's PageSpeed service, so it shouldn't be slow. > > Cheers > Mike > > > > On Thursday, March 14, 2013 8:38:15 AM UTC+11, Kaan Soral wrote: >> >> You can check the headers with something like Firebug yourself, the >> answer is 99% Yes, as server seems to be Google Frontend >> >> Also even before seeing the headers, I was 90% sure it was still an >> Appengine app, because it took a significant amount of time to load the app >> initially, might not have been Appengine's fault tho >> >> On Wednesday, March 13, 2013 1:11:22 AM UTC+2, Adam Wooding wrote: >>> >>> Hi Mike, >>> >>> I just came across your post and had a look at your Shoes of Prey app - >>> it is fantastic! >>> >>> I am also about to begin work creating a similar app, but for custom >>> made wardrobes / closets. I'm just wondering - which language did you build >>> your app on? Are you still running it on Google App Engine? >>> >>> Any tips / advice you could give would be much appreciated. >>> >>> Thank you very much, >>> Adam Wooding >>> >>> >>> On Monday, 1 February 2010 23:19:04 UTC+10, Mike wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi NG >>>> >>>> We are running our business on AppEngine. (Search "Shoes of Prey" on >>>> Google to find us.) >>>> >>>> So far, it is going really well. AppEngine is a delight to develop on, >>>> and you can't argue with the cost. (I've only been charged $0.01 so >>>> far. Although, as I've posted in another thread, the small charge by >>>> itself was problematic for me.) :) >>>> >>>> I had to write the entire ecommerce platform from scratch - which >>>> suited me given the very custom nature of our business - however you >>>> may not be as keen as me. It really depends on your business. >>>> >>>> We choose AppEngine primarily because a) 2 of us used to work at >>>> Google, and we love AppEngine b) if we start serving a lot of traffic/ >>>> bandwidth we want something scalable. As I said earlier as well, the >>>> API is really nice and makes developing a breeze. >>>> >>>> The only thing I wish AppEngine had was HTTPS support for custom >>>> domains, and I'm hopeful that one day it will be supported. There are >>>> workarounds too. Once AppEngine has HTTPS support and a few open- >>>> source ecommerce software packages, it will be a really great platform >>>> I would think. >>>> >>>> Good luck. >>>> >>>> Mike >>>> >>>> On Jan 31, 4:31 pm, decuman <ngn...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> > Hello, >>>> > >>>> > At the moment I'm thinking of building a small/medium online selling >>>> > business and before investing more of my time (and money) into GAE >>>> > based development it would be just great to know some experienced >>>> > users and expert thoughts and opinions on it. >>>> > >>>> > As far as I can see (after reading related books, articles and message >>>> > group threads) GAE is just a perfect solution for prototyping and >>>> > building a social networking applications (Blogs, Chats, Galleries, >>>> > Message boards etc.) which requires tracking a lot of users and >>>> > storing data... which is great. But there is quite a few (literally >>>> > none) of nice business/e-commerce applications with decent product >>>> > galleries, shopping carts and checkout functionality and payment >>>> > service integration. Also there are lots of complains and negative >>>> > responses pointing to big GAE functional limitations (which are not >>>> > going to improve soon or ever) and overall practicability of using it >>>> > as a reliable e-commerce platform. In particular (PayPal, Google >>>> > Checkout integration) >>>> > >>>> > It wasn't a very deep and thoughtful investigation but the outlined >>>> > above is just my personal subjective feeling so far. I would really >>>> > love to know the opinion and thoughts on this matter from GAE experts. >>>> > Shell I move forward with Google App Engine development or it would be >>>> > move wise to consider some other solution? >>>> > >>>> > Thanks in advance! >>>> > NG >>>> >>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
