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Isn't SnapChat built entirely on AppEngine? Why haven't they moved to GCE if it's so terrible?

• jethro_tell 10y ago
  Jeez, if the Snapchat backend looks anything like the ux works this isn't much of an endorsement. Just because some company moves a lot of bits doesn't mean they know what they are doing. The easiest way to move a lot of bits is to be bad at infrastructure and have investors with deep pockets. Fuck just run a rack of open relays and bad NTP/DNS servers.
  • levemi 10y ago
    > if the Snapchat backend looks anything like the ux works What does this even mean. > Just because some company moves a lot of bits doesn't mean they know what they are doing. You have to have some measure of competency to be able to operate at Snapchat scale. You really do. > Fuck just run a rack of open relays and bad NTP/DNS servers. You really have no idea what you're talking about.
    • jethro_tell 10y ago
      >> if the Snapchat backend looks anything like the ux works >What does this even mean. I find their app to be very poorly designed, I wouldn't be surprised if their back end is also poorly designed. >You have to have some measure of competency to be able to operate at Snapchat scale. You really do. Meh, they are big but they aren't that big. There are about 3000 bigger sites out there and not that many are built on GAE so that's a strange way to measure the competency of GAE or snap chat for that matter. You can run at scale and do it poorly, Enterprises do it all the time. Size and scale aren't really a good indication of quality. If you want to make a case for appengine, do that, but don't tell me that 'these guys vetted it, and they are kinda big, so it must be good' There's a lot more big sites that don't use app engine. Size doesn't equal competency.