Manthan

While Google Appengine is a giant step for smaller companies to host scalable applications there are few things which make it totally not practical for building serious application.

There is a limit of 1000 files per application.  Add a few libraries and one hits the 1000 files limit.

Google’s response

We encourage developers to find creative ways to reduce the number of files in an
app. For example, a zip file with many small files is much more efficient than many
small individual files. 

Well learning to work around Google Appengine’s limitations in itself requires quite a bit learning curve and creativity. Add to this 1000 file limitations, it makes more sense to go with other hosting provider and use Amazon S3 as a scalable storage solution.

Google develops products in an iterative manner and I hope these limitations would dealt with in the future.

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