The Cloud: Watch your step ( Google App engine limitations )
Any blog which promotes the concept of cloud infrastructure would be doing injustice if it doesn̢۪t provide references to implementations where it failed horribly. Here is an excellent post by Carlos Ble where he lists out all the problems he faced on Google App engine (python). He lists 13 different limitations, most of which are very well known facts, and then lists some more frustrating reasons why he had to dump the solution and look for an alternative. The tone of the voice is understandable, and while it might look like App-Engine-bashing, I see it as a great story which others could lean from. For us, GAE has been a failure like Wave or Buzz were but this time, we have paid it with our money. I've been too stubborn just because this great company was behind the platform but I've learned an important lesson: good companies make mistakes too. I didn't do enough spikes before developing actual features. I should have performed more proofs of concept before inv