Google App Engine
Discussions center on Google App Engine (GAE), covering user experiences, pros like scalability and free tier, cons such as limitations and compatibility issues, and comparisons to alternatives like Heroku and EC2.
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How is Google App Engine? Are there any pain points one should be aware of before using it?
Honestly, google app engine especially if you can stay in their free tier
Three words... Google App Engine.
Google App Engine is a scalable low-cost Platform as a Service run on Google's infrastructure. You get to use their toys (Datastore based on BigTable, large network of servers and datacenters, etc), but it will not "just work" with most Django/Python web applications. For example, you have to use their API to interact with the Datastore, and some things just don't work. Once you do the work to get your app running there, though, it turns out to be a fairly good deal.
how is this compared to google's app engine?
As someone who's happy with Google App Engine for simple apps, is this in any way comparable?
Is Google App Engine proving popular? Any significant apps?
App engine is a stepchild pos product. It should be deprecated and they should allow socket access, etc so that real web apps can be built on Google services.
What do you mean? Google App Engine is business as usual.
Could you talk about some of the limitations that led you away from AppEngine?