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Giftag/Google App Engine Case Study

Posted January 26th, 2009 by Steve

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

Paging on GAE by Joe Gregario

Building Scalable Apps by Brett Slatkin

GAEGene Library Contributed by Giftag

Hope its helpful. Let us know what you think.

3 Responses to “Giftag/Google App Engine Case Study”

Really interesting to hear another side (yours) of the argument. Any rebuttals to “F-the cloud?”

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Matt Albiniak (January 26th, 2009 at 4:06 pm)

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