Django’s D-day
Development, Python, Web April 7th, 2008
Google just released the Google App Engine in python development environment. The environment is loaded with WSGI, and Django 0.96 “for convenience”.
Just checked the Datastore API, it is a copycat of Django reference. Google’s engineers hacked the Django’s Model to support Google’s datastore, aka BigTable. Bang! Google Account is also supported via User API, no idea whether it is integrated to Django’s authentication framework though.
I am so glad that Google has made such a move, I can bet the Django users may grow exponentially in the following couple months. Today is Django’s D-day.
[...] stellt Google Django bereit, ein beliebtes Python-basiertes Web Framework, dessen Datenbank-Layer scheinbar so modifiziert wurde, dass er Googles BigTable Datastore [...]
“The service is launching in beta and has a number of limitations.
First, only the first 10,000 developers to sign up for the beta will be allowed to deploy applications.
The service is completely free during the beta period, but there are ceilings on usage. Applications cannot use more than 500 MB of total storage, 200 million megacycles/day CPU time, and 10 GB bandwidth (both ways) per day. We’re told this equates to about 5M pageviews/mo for the typical web app. After the beta period, those ceilings will be removed, but developers will need to pay for any overage. Google has not yet set pricing for the service.”