[mmastrac]

Agreed, absolutely. Before we settled on GAE, I spent time playing with it and wrote a few nontrivial test applications to get a good feel for it. We haven't been surprised by anything on the platform, except possibly the spurious 500 errors that were happening way too often in September (and have been fixed by the latest rounds of maintenance)

We made the trade of zero platform maintenance and near-free scaling and accepted the limits placed on what we can do. Many of those limits are being lifted each month as well. I can say for sure that there are a number of items mentioned in this post that have fixes in the works right now.

I will say that choosing GAE let us ship a project much faster than we could have without it and with much less manpower. The time we spend working around limits is easily made up by not having to do IT work.