Alex King brought us Twitter Tools, which we were using here for a while… but I’m not in an environment to use it often enough. He has given a few good reasons why Google and Amazon are moving into the web application framework space, obviously there is substantial demand.
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As you’ve no doubt heard already, Google released Google App Engine at the Google Campfire One event last night.
Folks, this is a real game changer.
Scalability has been the final frontier for web applications for far too long. For web developers like myself, the “building the app” part of offering a web service is the easy part. The challenge comes when you try to scale it.
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As to scalability, and being a “game changer”, the Datastore (which is integral to this) doesn’t work like you expect, especially if you are used to good old relational databases.
And the GAE docs are light on how to do the things you do naturally in SQL. Like one-to-many JOINs.
After figuring this out for myself, I wrote a short tutorial on how to do a one-to-many JOIN equivalent in the GAE Datastore.
http://blog.arbingersys.com/2008/04/google-app-engine-one-to-many-join.html
Enjoy!