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Quirkiness of Javascript + extreme weirdness of App Engine (especially datastore) = best of both worlds.
by ungzd 11y ago
Quirkiness of Javascript + extreme weirdness of App Engine (especially datastore) = best of both worlds.
- boulos 11y agoAww, I like Datastore. But, there's no requirement that you use Datastore. The point of App Engine is that it's "you just give us code, we run it for you". With Managed VMs (built on top of Compute Engine) we're able to offer that programming model with a more flexible environment. As someone mentioned elsewhere, there's even "just hand us a random docker container". We've had people run ffmpeg because you can just hook up App Engine's request/response and autoscaling to an arbitrary thing, and you've got an autoscaling web service. tl;dr: Don't get hung up on the old "extreme weirdness of App Engine", this is different.
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