Goodbye, Google App Engine
Does no one read the documentation before deciding to use a platform anymore?<p><i>App Engine supports Python 2.5. The Python interpreter runs in a secured "sandbox" environment to isolate your application for service and security. The interpreter can run any Python code, including Python modules you include with your application, as well as the Python standard library. The interpreter cannot load Python modules with C code; it is a "pure" Python environment.</i><p>At the top of the FIRST page of documentation: <a href="http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/overview.html" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/overview.html</a><p><i>Google Apps domains do not currently support HTTPS. HTTPS support is limited to apps accessed via </i>.appspot.com domains. Accessing an HTTPS URL on a Google Apps domain will return a "host not found" error, and accessing a URL whose handler only accepts HTTPS (see below) using HTTP will return an HTTP 403 "Forbidden" error. You can link to an HTTPS URL with the <i>.appspot.com domain for secure features, and use the Apps domain and HTTP for the rest of the site.</i><p>HIGHLIGHTED on <a href="http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/config/appconfig.html#Secure_URLs" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/config/appconfi...</a><p><i>A request handler has a limited amount of time to generate and return a response to a request, typically around 30 seconds. Once the deadline has been reached, the request handler is interrupted.</i><p>and<p><i>While a request can take as long as 30 seconds to respond, App Engine is optimized for applications with short-lived requests, typically those that take a few hundred milliseconds. An efficient app responds quickly for the majority of requests. An app that doesn't will not scale well with App Engine's infrastructure.</i><p><a href="http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/runtime.html#The_Request_Timer" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/runtime.html#Th...</a><p>I could go on and on.. reading this I see "I wasted 15000€ by not reading the documentation"<p>I usually think the title <i>technical architect</i> is a bit stupid (my business card says I'm one, so I can say that) but this guy needs a good technical architect to make platform decisions <i>prior</i> to wasting that much money