Recently Google announced that Google App Engine is leaving preview. Along with a SLA they are also putting their pricing into effect. There has been a lot of speculation, but no one knows for sure how things will keep playing out.

What does this mean for mcottondesign? It means that even if everything stays the same, now would be a good time to re-write this blog in Node.js and CouchDB on EC2. I have already shown how to make an all javascript blog in my screencast series with the same name.

It also means that I no longer have a good place to run python on the back-end. Django seems too heavy and abstracted, WebApp was a great little framework that I really enjoyed using. I will have to look at Twisted to see how I like it.

This also means that my github projects (this blog, among others) aren't as appealing. It was really fun to be able to tell people to just download the latest and they would be running in 30 seconds.

I really enjoy developing for Google App Engine. I hope that the free quotas remain generous and performance doesn't suffer.