Hi We are about to undertake a re-write of a large and successfull bespoke ecommerce system currently running in a standard hosted enviromment (dedicated servers) written in Microsoft ASP.NET (3 years ago).
We want the new version to run in the cloud, and utilise a 'NoSql' type solution for data storage. We are currently considering using either Google App Engine or Windows Azure. We've played with both platforms, and would prefer to build a python- based app on top of Google App Engine, as the developement and deployment overhead seems more favourable for a fast-evolving application (like we have). The solution in its entirety consists of an 'Administrative' web application for order processing, and 1 or more independant 'selling' websites where visitors can place orders and pay for them. Our current site has 3 'selling' sites but this will grow to at least 9. Currently all websites are deploted on the same dedicated servers, and share data model code and use the same connection credentials to a central SQL server database. Windows Azure Table Storage will meet our data requirements as any number of applications can be configured to securely access the same data store. However, we have just discivered thet the data store for Google App Engine doesnt support this. We've seen work-arounds with 'versions' but with 10 or more applications being deployed as different versions of the same application seems very fragile, and likely to cause many problems. Does Google App Engine have a secure mechanism for sharing data betwewen applicaitons (other than having to build a whole REST service infrastructire in Python) Inability to support our needs will be a show-stopper for us with respect to using Google App Engine, which will be a shame as in every other way we are very impressed. Dean -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
