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App Engine SDK 1.3.1, Including Major Improvements to Datastore
- DenisM 17y agoHow many people here use GAE? Any pros/cons in your practice?
- jeff18 17y agoI use it. Pros: - It is practically free. An article I wrote was #1 on Digg, Reddit, etc. and Google charged me $0.11 for the traffic. - Very easy to use. I can rapidly develop production ready web apps with it and deploy it in one click. Cons: - It only supports certain features. For example, if you want comet, you're out of luck. - Arbitrary limitations. Blobstore only handles 50 MB files. A URLFetch request must take less than 30 second. Etc. If you need something more, you're out of luck. - Lock in. AppScale and Google are working to change this, but if GAE doesn't fit my needs, it currently is a pain to port it to a new cloud service.
- DenisM 17y agoDo you find sporadic errors and/or limitations too restrictive or is it smooth sailing?
- jeff18 17y agoThe limitations are not really a problem for me. If you're referring to the sporadic datastore errors, that was actually resolved in 1.3.1, by having it auto-retry natively (no need for a decorator anymore). I would really like to see support for 500 MB files in GAE, so I don't need to use S3 anymore (large game downloads). Comet support would also be fantastic. I'd also like to see lower latency. However, these are not deal breakers for me and I am more than satisfied with GAE. I am tracking maybe seven issues on the Google Code issues list, and if those were fixed, I seriously would not have any gripes about the service.