[google-appengine] Re: I have an app I'd like to build - the question is GAE the right platform?

2009-03-09 Thread Ryan Lamansky
The biggest challenge to using the app engine is adjusting to the fact that the datastore, despite it's SQL-like outward appearance, is basically just an object store. Accessing or updating an individual "record" has equivalent performance to updating a file on disk. Addressing your specific con

[google-appengine] Re: I have an app I'd like to build - the question is GAE the right platform?

2009-03-10 Thread Mr Blog
I concur with Ryan's comments. I'll add that I've found that the more one is used to and comfortable with Java, the more likely they are to be particularly challenged and frustrated by Python. Particularly, if you *really like* Java, you will most likely really despise Python. Likewise, the mor