first thing that pops out at me is the mention of a task scheduler for appengine: (from http://code.google.com/events/io/sessions.html http://code.google.com/e

first thing that pops out at me is the mention of a task scheduler for appengine: (from http://code.google.com/events/io/sessions.html http://code.google.com/events/io/sessions.html, under "Offline processing on App Engine: a look ahead") "App Engine was designed to run request-driven web applications, although this will change in the coming year with the release of a number of offline computing components. In this session, we'll explore the task queue/executor model of computation and some of the more interesting applications" awesome