Re:AppEngine doesn’t fit the needs of startups on the runway
by mariana on Friday June 05, 2009 @02:09PM
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you can host webapps written in Python and use Django on there (or just almost any other Python framework). That doesn't look like vendor lock-in to me, if they decide to shutdown the service, you can move your webapp to another place, like your very own server.
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Re:AppEngine doesn’t fit the needs of startups on the runway
by paulgb on Friday June 05, 2009 @02:39PM
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FWIW, even if you use django, the database is still Google's proprietary db.
Re:AppEngine doesn’t fit the needs of startups on the runway
by mariana on Friday June 05, 2009 @02:51PM
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That's right, and because of that my applications deployed on there have 2 branches: one using Google DB and other using data models provided by Django. IMHO, developing this way is pretty easy and prepare you to migrate your apps if necessary.