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python on google app engine

https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/overview

Easy to use, can support what you want to do, easy to maintain, easy to scale.

Do you worry about lock-in with regards to persistence? How hard would it be to get the data out and switch over to controlling the back end yourself?

It would take some work to get the data out.

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