The pre-compilation of python code appears to significantly decrease the time required for cold starts. That's just great. Awesome team, awesome platform.
Does anyone use AppEngine in production? I am not trying to troll but we've have had pretty poor performance getting data out of their datastore. We only have a couple operations apps running on it and I could not imagine running anything that need to perform on GAE. BTW - We've had slowness in both Java and Python...
Still waiting for that full text search API. I believe the ticket was 'started' in October last year. <a href="http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=217" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=21...</a>