the 2nd method makes sense to me. the 1st method looks to me like playing
russian roulette with my data; it is twice as fast when everything is
working but what if memcached crashes? memcached is not fault tolerant and
it was not design to be, after all, its just cache. i think there are
applica
thanks a lot for all the comments. i think one comment sums it up
beautifully: "Neither Google nor Amazon are idiots" so both have their good
and bad points. i think we will go with gae for the prototype but keep the
datastore bits separated just in case the need to switch to ec2 in the
future.
