I love app engine. The datastore issues have been the only negative aspect of it. Yes, SSL support and naked domain support would be nice, but it's a very nice platform to develop on.
Sure, the first time I wrote a toy app on app engine I ran into the so-called "limitations" b/c I didn't understand the way the platform is designed. But once you get it, it's really just a series of quite reasonable tradeoffs that you make in order to get effortless scaling.
Yes, the platform could be a bit more reliable and in some areas a bit more mature, and yes, one of my projects almost failed b/c of the datastore issues over the last few months (angry users, etc.) But we made it through, and as of Nov 6, I get very few errors and things just work again.
Is App Engine ready for every prime time app you might want to build? No. But it's definitely a platform to know about and to watch carefully.
One other feature to note is the app versioning capabilities. You can simultaneously run lots of different versions of an app... useless at first, but extremely valuable later when you want to get aggressive and roll out updates gradually, etc.
And, there is ZERO sysadmin work and NONE of the usual web server setup yak shaving.
Sure, the first time I wrote a toy app on app engine I ran into the so-called "limitations" b/c I didn't understand the way the platform is designed. But once you get it, it's really just a series of quite reasonable tradeoffs that you make in order to get effortless scaling.
Yes, the platform could be a bit more reliable and in some areas a bit more mature, and yes, one of my projects almost failed b/c of the datastore issues over the last few months (angry users, etc.) But we made it through, and as of Nov 6, I get very few errors and things just work again.
Is App Engine ready for every prime time app you might want to build? No. But it's definitely a platform to know about and to watch carefully.
One other feature to note is the app versioning capabilities. You can simultaneously run lots of different versions of an app... useless at first, but extremely valuable later when you want to get aggressive and roll out updates gradually, etc.
And, there is ZERO sysadmin work and NONE of the usual web server setup yak shaving.