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IgorJ
IgorJ

Reputation: 428

Google app engine: personal experiences?

I'm considering making an app on Google App Engine, to help an existing not-so-large (1000s) community with some field specific collaboration on existing projects. On single project work several people, mostly discussing things. App should communicate with "back-end" which can be hosted somewhere no problem.

But I'm not looking for another "pros and cons" discussion (for example you can read such here: Pros & Cons of Google App Engine ) but rather I'd like to hear about other people experiences in similar situations.

Any personal experiences willing to share? Ideas?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 387

Answers (2)

Constantin
Constantin

Reputation: 28164

I would say, GAE/Python is a pleasant platform to develop for, if you don't mind community-driven kind of support. Although my personal experience with tracko was quite rough, it was mostly because I tried to fit millions of requests into free quota.

Watch out for important issues, for example, HTTPS support and what Python version your modules require. Check if any of issues is a showstopper for you. As usual, it is recommended to develop a small project to get the feel of the platform.

Upvotes: 1

Jason Hall
Jason Hall

Reputation: 20920

App Engine provides great APIs to perform common tasks like authentication with almost no effort on your end.

There are some unique limitations that some people aren't ready for when they start using App Engine, such as the 30s request timeout, or the non-relational datastore, but they're not difficult to work around once you're used to them, and they make your app as fast and scalable as possible, even within the free quota.

There's a lot of great docs, too, and I recommend watching as many Google I/O talks on App Engine as you can find, they're all really informative.

Upvotes: 1

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