On: $10 Million Round For Ruby On Rails Startup Heroku (YC W08)

[djb_hackernews]

This my be the wrong question since I'm not too familiar with Heroku, but is anyone working on something similar for Django?

[njl → djb_hackernews]

I just came up for air from working on my take to browse hacker news for a bit. A lot of work for one man, but I'm moderately pleased with the progress I've been making.

[waxman → djb_hackernews]

Isn't that what Google App Engine is?

Heroku is a cloud-based deployment and hosting solution for Ruby apps (and soon to be Node.js javascript apps too). Google App Engine is for Python and Java.

[jackowayed → waxman]

But GAE doesn't have a SQL db. Now, for some apps that may even be an advantage, but these frameworks are really setup for having a SQL db behind them.

The same exact code that you would deploy to a VPS can run on Heroku without issue, save some limitations like the read-only filesystem. That's a big plus.

[messel → waxman]

Don't forget JRuby and they have a fix for the spin up time with http://gist.github.com/331854 Deferred Dispatcher.

[weixiyen → waxman]

goog app engine doesn't work with tornado =/

[csytan → weixiyen]

Yes it does.

[ianb → djb_hackernews]

Silver Lining has some similarities: http://cloudsilverlining.org

[kingkilr → djb_hackernews]

http://kutoken.com/ exists, can't speak intelligently about the comparison, or their quality though.

[jacquesm → djb_hackernews]

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=252784