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Update 2: Take a look at the django-dbindexer. Since its release it's possible to use __month= queries so you don't have to use tricky code which uses a date range query for example. Additionally django-dbindexer adds support for simple JOINs.

Update: MongoDB backend is now available too :)

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It's nonrel blog time, again! We really wanted to post last week, but we had to finish something before PyCon. Drums please...

We've moved our blog to our new website built with Django nonrel. It's hosted on App Engine, but it should also work with other cloud ...

Due to a busy week, we can only provide a short update this time.

Andy Smith from Google (and a Jaiku developer) has done a little presentation on Django on App Engine at the San Francisco Django Meetup on January 27th. Unfortunately, there is no video, but you can at ...

When developing a scalable application for App Engine you need to pay attention to how often a database entity is updated because you can only update any single entity with a maximal frequency of 1-5 times per second. If the frequency of updates for any single entity is higher than ...

You probably know all of App Engine's documented datastore limitations. An important one is that a single entity can't have more than 5000 index entries. Usually this means that you have to be careful with queries that have multiple filters on a ListProperty (or StringListProperty, of course). If ...