App Engine SDK 1.3.0 Released Including Support for Larger User Uploads

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26 points·bandris··7 comments

"For example, we've sped up many reflective operations by up to 10x resulting in improvements on the order of 10% for applications based on dynamic languages"

More than the Blobstore API - i am more excited about this. Clojure/Scala on GAE.

I'm curious why you prefer functional languages that excel at concurrency for the GAE. As far as I know you can only write sequential apps on the Google AppEngine.

Admittedly those languages excel at concurrency but i am more interested in trying out those languages on the GAE for the increase in Speed of Development., so the sequential bit is not very relevant to me.

Now if only they would lift the limit of 1MB for the Imaging API. What use is the uploaded profile picture if I can not resize it.

>"The new Blobstore API is now available in both App Engine SDKs for local development. At this time it can only be used by applications that have enabled billing."

I'm not sure on this yet, but do billing enabled accounts not have those 1MB limits as they can be easily billed right??

the documentation does not differentiate between billing enabled or not, so I assume the limit is for all accounts.

But there is no way to access or manipulate the blogs from app engine code (unless you url.fetch them!). Rather underwhelming.

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