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

[waxman]

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.