What I learned from building WordGap on AppEngine

Posted by antichaos on Thursday November 25, 2010 @10:21PM
from the blog.zmxv.com dept.

http://blog.zmxv.com/2010/11/what-i-learned-from-building-wordgapcom.html

( 5 comments | 29 points | on HN )

Re:What I learned from building WordGap on AppEngine by drtse4 on Friday November 26, 2010 @05:31AM (#1942082)

I'm not a GAE expert, but using the GAE memcache clone wouldn't be a good idea in this case? The low latency requirement should be met and it looks like that his data structure would fit well in a k/v store.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:What I learned from building WordGap on AppEngine by marcc on Friday November 26, 2010 @12:37AM (#1941709)

I've been using AppEngine for almost a year. It's definitely come a long way, but it does still have some serious shortcomings. Most notably is support. If they could offer a level of professional support to organizations willing to pay, I would both pay whatever they wanted and would no longer have anything to complain about. AppEngine is a great product and watching it mature is fun, but frustrating at times.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:What I learned from building WordGap on AppEngine by herrherr on Friday November 26, 2010 @03:13AM (#1941873)

The #appengine channel on Freenode is a pretty good place to ask. There are oftentimes people from Google who are working on GAE and can help you out.

Worked for me several times.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:What I learned from building WordGap on AppEngine by khookie on Friday November 26, 2010 @12:25AM (#1941698)

I still don't get why people keep on talking about how awesome App Engine deployment is.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:What I learned from building WordGap on AppEngine by herrherr on Friday November 26, 2010 @03:15AM (#1941874)

It's painless and fast so why shouldn't it be awesome?

[ Parent | on HN ]