Giftag.com/Google App Engine Case Study Rev 1.28.09

Giftag is gift registry Add On for FireFox and Explorer. It lets you pick things from any site, add them to a list, and share that list where ever you want. Its free, it supports open standards, and its recently been re-platformed on Google App Engine. Here's a quick recap from our development team about why we chose GAE, what we like about it, what APIs we use, what we wish it had, and a few tips for people getting started on GAE.
Here are links to the documentation mentioned:

Sharding Counters by Joe Gregario http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/sharding_counters.html

Paging on GAE by Joe Gregario http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/paging.html

Building Scalable Apps by Brett Slatkin http://sites.google.com/site/io/building-scalable-web-applications-with-googl...

GAEGene Library Contributed by Giftag http://blog.giftag.com/?p=26&preview=true

Hope its helpful. Let us know what you think- and check out Giftag.com if you have a minute.

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[x3ICEx]

Ridiculously loud intro and outro music. :(

[h2o2m3n]

Some of the google services sucks, this is one of them.

I prefer, developing, deploying and scaling the apps myself.

Google as microsoft is just monotizing the industry, which stinks, i dont think they are doing a very good job with it but well...

Why doesnt Google come up with an operating system?

Why couldnt google catch up with iphone ?

Google is just a good search engine.

That s all to google.

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