Google App Engine Django FTW

Posted on April 8th, 2008 by Yousef Ourabi

Update: It’s very clear to me that the Google App Engine is modeled after Django… See below

Huge win for Django! It will be interesting to see how this plays out on one hand you have heroku the all in one IDE/Enviroment for Ruby On Rails that is backed by Amazon AWS and auto-deploys for you (to the Amazon cloud) and on the other hand you have Python, Django and Google App engine with a similar but different model.

I’m firmly on the Python side, and thrilled that my favorite framework is going to be run on Google’s cloud offering.

I’ve already gotten my account activation (see below) but there seems to be a glitch and it just forwards me to the waiting list. I’ve downloaded the App Engine SDK… but won’t play with it until the weekend.

Update One: After watching the introductory video, and reading through some documentation, I’m noticing some very clear patterns modeled after Django. Particularly the Database models, and the “config” yaml file which is equivalent to settings.py (Django). See the intro video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfgO-LXGpTM

Hello,

Thanks for signing up to try Google App Engine! Your account has been activated, so you can begin building applications!

To start creating applications with Google App Engine, simply follow this link (you may need to sign in with your {{ removed }} Google Account):

http://appengine.google.com/

Thanks!
The Google App Engine Team

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