The Kay team just just released Kay 1.1! I want to thank Takashi Matsuo, Nickolas Daskalou, Tasuku Suenaga, and Yosuke Suzuki for their hard work on this release. Kay is a web framework made specifically for Google App Engine. The basic design of Kay is based on the Django framework, such as middleware, settings, pluggable applications, etc. Kay uses Werkzeug as lower level framework, Jinja2[...]

My good friend Takashi Matsuo wrote an interesting blog about start up times of various frameworks on appengine. Because appengine kills your server process it often needs to load your application into memory from scratch. This can take a lot of time if a lot of modules are loaded. http://takashi-matsuo.blogspot.com/2009/10/minimum-cost-of-various-frameworks- cold.html