Google App Engine has all the makings of a great service, but for the reasons listed in the article, it fails... * ...1M limit is also on files uploaded — earl

Google App Engine has all the makings of a great service, but for the reasons listed in the article, it fails... * ...1M limit is also on files uploaded — early on, created a game application with Django on GAE but had to trim down my /dict/words file to words with less than 9 characters as it had to be under 1M or it wouldn't upload... * ...really don't mind the 1000 call limit as you really shouldn't be doing that much DB access for a single transaction... ...but the lack of aggregate functions (and the GAE team suggested "workaround" is an inelegant non-ACID compliant hack that really is dreadful when you consider the next point...) and inability to run any offline processes against the complete data repository (if you go over 1000 records). There's been some rather arcane AJAX hacks to mediate this, but to me, that's an awfully inelegant solution. * ...I bumped up against quotas by simple performing ONE DataStore read/write with a 200-300K object pickle/unpickle... ...not the total quota, just the singles got tagged as CPU-intensive...