I really appreciate reading stories like this. For budding startups like mine, we need every available resource at our disposal on technology choices. I also th

I really appreciate reading stories like this. For budding startups like mine, we need every available resource at our disposal on technology choices. I also think articles like this will encourage Google's engineers to keep making GAE a better platform. AFAIK, Google is also notorious for eating their own dog food. I was a bit taken back by the criticism on the last app-engine article. Quite frankly, sometimes you don't realize you the limitations until you hit them despite what the manual says. ("Every one's job is easy but your own.") If you haven't used GAE, you don't realize how easy it is to just get up and get going. It's absurdly simple. However, when you hit limitations you might encounter the sunk-cost fallacy, and that might propel you to keep working around its limitations.