Google-backed simple deployment of scalable web apps

 

Applications cannot use more than 500 MB of total storage, 200 million megacycles/day CPU time, and 10 GB bandwidth (both ways) per day. We’re told this equates to about 5M pageviews/mo

About Limits Django on App Engine

 

About

 

• good summary - docs - anouncement  + Guido talk about it with pictures

 

• why it is free - Google saves on acquisition cost (when buing new companies) and training
• App Engine in new BASIC - it changes IT as PC did: anyone can deploy app now.

 

Limits

• overview - QA
• DB:  diff between RDBMS and Google BigTable : 50 inserts with 2 fields each almost ate up the 3 seconds limit allowed for a web request
• templates: Genshi

 

Django on App Engine

• docs - 13 steps
• how to implement: blog - Login Decorator