I think it's just that developing for GAE is just so different from developing on a typical LAMP stack that there inevitably a fairly steep learning curve. That

I think it's just that developing for GAE is just so different from developing on a typical LAMP stack that there inevitably a fairly steep learning curve. That combined with the (well documented) limitations you just have to find new ways of solving problems. The fact that this author thinks that other article was a "good read" doesn't inspire a lot of confidence in what this guy has to say. I don't know if developing on the App Engine is still as bad as it was before. Maybe it's changed in the last few months that we've been on EC2 From what I've heard, things have dramatically improved from how they were a few months ago.