If you're disciplined about how you design your app it's an amazing platform. I recommend doing a fairly trivial project in your spare time to get the hang of

If you're disciplined about how you design your app it's an amazing platform. I recommend doing a fairly trivial project in your spare time to get the hang of it. Try out the following features before deciding: - large data set related stuff like cursors, paging lots of records - transactions - GQL (look at the various limitations of it) GAE gives you a set of solid conventions for writing a highly scalable app that you'd eventually have to deal with if you used a more traditional approach. Some can be a bit annoying at first but it's fairly obvious why each choice was made. You might also check out jinja2, django, etc. But personally I love the simple webapp framework. It's clean, obvious, stays out of the way, and it's very fast.