Review on how we are building the ComparisonGeeks.com using Google AppEngine

The first version of ComparisonGeeks.com was built using ASP.NET and Microsoft SQL Server 2005. You could find that old version here: http://old-asp-net.ComparisonGeeks.com/.

It lived for quite a while in prototype state as I had no time to work on it.

And one day the Google AppEngine beta arrived.

By that time I wanted to learn something new in higly scalable area so I decided to try it on building the ComparisonGeeks.com.

Google AppEngine uses Python as a programming language so first of all I needed to check what are the differences of ASP.NET versus Python. I'm an M$ technology guy and do love .NET and Visual Studio so you could be sure there were good reasons to swtich from C# to Python.

The buity about AppEngine it does not required any assembly, it is easy to scale and it's free to get started!

AppEngine provides BigTable data storage that has very different concept comparing to relation databases and looks more efficient & cheap comparing to Amazon SimpleDB.

As you probably know cloud services is a modern trend and there few vendors doing a bet on the technology.

• Amazon WebServices
• Google AppEngine
• Mosso Hosting Cloud

To be completed...

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