Well, this looks pretty interesting. Google has released a scalable “app engine” where you upload your web site source code and it runs on their infrastructure.
They provide a basic data access solution also. Right now the engine runs Python web apps only (not that popular, but perhaps growing). That is limiting since it’s not a huge population of apps. I was wondering why Guido van Rossim, the creator of Phython, joined google a few years ago. Now I know.
Python is one of my favorite languages, but lately I’ve been feeling like I prefer Ruby a bit more. Perhaps when Ruby 2.0 comes out with native threading support I will completely prefer Ruby over Python.
This is another example of cloud computing trends. I’ll be posting more and more about why cloud computing is the best answer for today’s web apps.
