Google App Engine SDK

I just learned about Google App Engine a couple of hours ago and I have to say I’m pretty excited about what their doing. I really like the fact that they didn’t go out and try to invent their own IDE and scripting language. I’m still really reluctant to move toward cloud computing services. I still want to cling on to my hardware and OS.

Some cool points:

• Pure Python 2.5
• Environment includes: Django, PyYAML, and WebOb
• Google single sign on… (Where’s my OpenID suport?)
• Simple URL Fetch API (Think cURL but easier)
• GQL Datastore API
• Mail API