Ask HN: what is your experience with Python/django and Google App Engine?

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I'm thinking of using Python/Django on Google App Engine and would like the hive mind's feedback. How is the app engine platfrom? Any problems? What about relying on Google's platform? Does App Engine offer any special support for Django? Thanks.

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I love it. I am only using the Django templates (included by google). It is a great platform and even better if you don't want to be a sys admin.

There have been a couple threads on here about the good and bad of the platform. I have only had a good experience. You will need to embrace the way they do things to get the most from it.

I've been reading up on GAE+Django and it doesn't seem to support RDMBs or installation of libraries. Has this hindered you in your coding?

This hasn't been a problem for me. Their datastore is very fast if you take the time read about it. The documentation is great: http://code.google.com/appengine

The project you are working on should determine the technology stack, for most things I prefer GAE instead of EC2 (I have projects on both). Feel free to use my template/example from github.

https://github.com/mcotton/GAE-template https://github.com/mcotton/GAE-blog

Lots of thanks for the feedback and templates!

I have a site up using Django-nonrel on GAE and it's working fine ( but not many users yet ). Because it abstracts the Google datastore django works the same as always. Getting this to work took much left effort than I expected.

Lots of limitations. We went with rackspace cloud. The startup is www.quoteroller.com

Any reason you choice rackspace over linode or aws?

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