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Google App Engine includes pretty much the same thing, except it's more mature since it's been around for ages. (JS isn't among its supported languages though —
by buu700 11y ago
Google App Engine includes pretty much the same thing, except it's more mature since it's been around for ages. (JS isn't among its supported languages though — Go, Java, Python, PHP — but IIRC they may have recently added some kind of language-agnostic runtime.)
- johansch 11y agoTo me AWS Lambda is like a Brazil-like nightmare in bureaucracy (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/), while App Engine is equally powerful but a lot simpler to use. It's harder to make something simple and powerful than it is to make something complex and powerful, so hats off to the Google engineers involved.
- nostrademons 11y agoIt took Google a long time to get there - I remember checking out AppEngine in 2007 and wondering why anyone would ever use it instead of EC2, and then checking it out in 2009 and wondering how the hell to put together a working app, and then checking it out in 2010 and giving up in frustration, and then finally checking it out in 2012 and finding it was actually pretty useful for prototypes.
- johansch 11y agoThe biggest disadvantage with Google from a global perspective: They don't have a chinese-hosted edition, unlike Amazon/Microsoft/IBM. I understand and can identify with the why...but still, most global businesses want to target China.