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There has been a lot of confusion and complaining about the price increases, and this is understandable given the way it has come about. This is one of those oh so obvious things, …

I will third and fourth Flask for App Engine. For me, it strikes exactly the right balance between light-weight, flexible, and powerful.

Just out of curiosity, how would you describe what you are currently doing? Can you elaborate on why it might not be a good fit? I'm honestly just trying to learn from your experie…

I use App Engine a ton. I won't try to list all the positives. Of course "is it flexible enough to run big, serious projects" depends on the requirements of your big serious projec…

This is so true. Doesn't mean the idea is not important, just that, like everything, there are compromises. More generally, I find that an uncharacteristic proportion of blog entri…

This is so true. Taking the second point first ... I keep thinking that -eventually- the market will find it's equilibrium with regards to price/quality for serious projects. Buddi…

That's right. In flat rate contracts, the client is paying for the value being delivered, not time.

One problem I have had with BI suites (specifically JasperSoft but it applies elsewhere) is the bolt-on nature of the solution. I found security integration, with a web app, to be …

SEEKING WORK: Dallas or Remote I can do a variety of development. Web apps / other. Python, Java, JavaScript (server or browser). Google App Engine expert. Particularly good at hel…

SEEKING WORK I'm late to this party but posting anyway. I'm in Dallas. Local or remote is fine. Development background - Java and Python primarily. I'm also really good with JavaSc…

Cool. Can you get an image out of it ?

My experience agrees with this. It should be noted that this is largely due to cold start time.

Yeah, this doesn't smell right. There are two posts on the blog as of my reading. Neither has much content and they do not sound like someone who has actually been through this. Th…

Thanks for the article. I have a question. What kind of latency do you experience using MongoHQ? And maybe you could discuss this part of the system a little more?

One occasionally reads complaints regarding the AWS API. What do you like about it / hate about it? How would you make it better? Assuming that some kind of key based authenticatio…

I like that. I think that is a good approach. However, this seems to me more of a business strategy than an answer to "what is the No. 1 thing you need to do to succeed". One could…