I have an idea for a web application and am currently exploring different platforms. I'm really interested in the Google App Engine, but it seems to work very well for certain types of applications, while it is less suitable for others (there are horrors as well as success stories like Goodbye Google App Engine vs Why are we really happy with Google App engine
This thread also has a similar negative story from 1 year ago, the GAE conclusion was not ready for a commercial production platform: GAE as a production platform . In 2009, there are also other topics on data selection restrictions (1000 rows) that have since been removed.
My application will essentially perform some mathematical analysis based on data output from external data channels (maybe some significant amount of data), it would be in real time only the first data to be loaded for a specific element at hand, and then saved and retrieved locally from the database at this point. Additional external data in the form of planned intervals will be added.
Based on this brief description, should I even start with GAE? In general, what are the rules of the thumb to try and decide if GAE is right for the problem? Also, what are some good examples of manufacturing applications that use GAE. The GAE App Gallery seems to no longer exist, but I would definitely appreciate any sample Web 2.0 applications running in the application.
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