How Google App Engine Ruined My Life
by Nicolaus Bauman
Thu, Oct 01, 2009
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It's 1:07 AM on a Tuesday morning. You're about to run your Python appengine test harness for the 75th time this evening (154 tests in 4 seconds). Your test coverage hovers in the mid 90's percentile. You have to be at work in a few hours. But all you can think about is mainlining superscalable Internet applications. What happened to you? Find out some of the ins and outs of Google App Engine.
About the Author
Nicolaus Bauman is a former Hollywood director who turned away from Tinsel Town after following up a blockbuster with a bomb so bad he was burned in effigy twice in one week on his own lot. Now he code quietly in the corner in the much more virulently realistic Midwest. He's never looked back. So he's have come to relish doling out the brutal truth rather than the Hollywood version in code and in life.