After writing a post that has recently sparked some controversy, I felt that it was only proper to offer up some more observations about the way various languages perform at a baseline (yes – read hello world style applications) on Google AppEngine. The primary purpose of both this post, and my previous post on comparing Google AppEngine language performance is to show that while Google offer Java on AppEngine, the performance of Java Applications for low-traffic (or growing) sites may not be what you are expecting on day one.
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posted on the April 25th, 2010 4 Comments »
I am quite convinced that Google AppEngine is a very significant piece of “cloud computing” technology. More than other cloud components, it has been designed to scale from small, low request count websites to the big suckers. That is, until you come across your first Loading Request in the world of the AppEngine Java (and friends – Scala, Groovy, etc).
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posted on the April 20th, 2010 14 Comments »
Django is a pretty interesting looking web application framework available for python, and a lot of the inspiration for Google AppEngine (in terms of the python implementation at least) have apparently come out of use of Django. Presently AppEngine has out of the box support for Django 0.96 but if you want to get up and running with the latest stable version of Django you have to jump through a few hoops.
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posted on the May 27th, 2009 No Comments »
Really struggling at the moment to make a choice between whether to go with Java or Python in the GAE. Either seem like a pretty solid choice from the reading I’ve done, and I’m comfortable with but not deeply skilled in either language. My great fear is (being distractable and all) is that I will start to implement a project in one, and then realise I really should have been working with the other.
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posted on the May 3rd, 2009 No Comments »
For anyone who is investigating using Google’s AppEngine at the moment, would be well aware that whilst it is pretty amazing (as I indicated in a previous post) it does have it’s limitations.
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posted on the March 22nd, 2009 2 Comments »
In my opinion Google’s AppEngine is a application prototypers dream. Up until just now I was tossing up whether to code a prototype or ConceptBuzz in PHP or RoR, even though I had a predisposition to building components of it using python. This was purely for the reason that I was being conservative with regards to economics – it’s cheap to get PHP hosting (and in general if you have cpanel hosting, you get RoR as well) so I was leaning that way.
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posted on the March 20th, 2009 2 Comments »
