Google App Engine gets django helper, data portability

Posted on April 20th, 2008 by Yousef Ourabi

HA! The google team have answered a lingering question about data portability. I’ve been vocal about my reservations with the GAE platform. The fact that people have ported the GAE python framework didn’t really mitigate my concerns. All code is throw away code anyway, the data is what is where the value is.

These two announcements from the GAE team have allayed some of my fears.

Getting your data on and off google address the issue of data portability, specifically importing and exporting large amounts of data.

The GAE Team has also released a Helper for Django that should smooth over some of the rough spots in the GAE/Django bridge.

Exciting times. My biggest remaining gripe with GAE is that one single Apps account can not host GAE instances on domains other than the main domain — but hopefully that will change sometime soon.

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