On Monday, 28 October 2013 22:03:06 UTC-5, Saisha D wrote: > > Thanks for the responses everyone. > I've tried the welcome app n read through the docs, things were a breeze > to set up. > > I'm now at the data modeling stage for my app. > I'm quite familiar with bigtable, and most probably going to deploy my > startup live on app-engine for the initial launch. > > Now my question: > the data model I would design if backend were mySQL, would be quite > different from if it's bigtable. > and I see the DAL layer tries to abstract away this logic providing a > sql-like interface so that backends can be switched. > What are best practices if we were to go the app-engine route? > Does using web2py make things slower? I know NDB support is in the works... > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/web2py/Tek9hreXC3U/a5Wo210ekF0J > but would that let me take advantage of powerful features of NDB? >
We do not support NDB but we have a patch pending to add support. > Do ppl using app-engine with web2py use DAL? > As far as I know, yes. > Can we directly talk to app-engine from web2py? > yes. > > > > On Tuesday, October 15, 2013 11:02:11 PM UTC-7, Saisha D wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> Apologies if this is a repost, my last post did not go through for many >> hours, posting again. >> >> I'm a newbie to web development, but quite familiar with python (use it >> at work), I'm trying to quickly prototype some ideas for a startup website. >> My goal is to deploy it initially with app engine, I also heard that >> twitter bootstrap is very helpful for UI. >> >> I found https://github.com/coto/gae-boilerplate after googling, and >> almost settled on it since it had >> gae ndb support, webapp2, federated login, twitter bootstrap and all this >> hooked together. >> >> but my friend pointed to me that web2py is a better option and it's much >> better supported (as I can see from this user group). >> >> My question for you folks: >> Am I making the right decision to go towards web2py? >> Is twitter bootstrap built into web2py or some form of it, or can it be >> hooked into it, >> Can I use NDB for google app engine(free account)? >> >> Please point me to any prior posts/articles on this topic if all this has >> been answered >> >> Thanks in advance >> Saisha >> > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
