I am new to GAE (who isn't?) and this subject has been touched on before in a number of guises but I think we could all benefit from a little more clarity.
I am developing a "proof-of-concept" business app which can benefit hugely from the GAE framework. My ideal scenario is to deploy the app to each customer as a separate isolated instance, integrated within his managed Google Apps business account. The main reasons for this preference are: 1. I would like to keep customer data and bugs isolated 2. Each customer is an island as far as the application data model is concerned. One big database would require all tables and queries to be qualified by a customer ID, adding an unnecessary layer of complexity and impacting performance. 3. I would like each customer to take individual responsibility for hosting costs 4. I wish to leverage the Google Apps for managing user accounts within each organisation. 5. I wish to expose my own API to allow for customisation. Bear in mind that each app instance may have to support a few thousand users at most (but probably not millions). Right now, deploying individual app instances in the way described above is kludgy at best. While it may be feasible to do this manually for a small number of high-value customers, it is certainly not a scalable solution. There is also the issue of protecting intellectual property. I am wondering if there is anything in the "unofficial" roadmap to address this requirement in the future. I would like to start developing now on the basis that deployment of individual app instances (and updates) will eventually be a single-click operation. Is this wishful thinking? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
