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App Engine screwed so many people over. First they couldn't get it working. Then they tripled the price. Fuck App Engine. I can't imagine anyone reading HN who
by tacos 10y ago
App Engine screwed so many people over. First they couldn't get it working. Then they tripled the price. Fuck App Engine.
I can't imagine anyone reading HN who'd think this is the right solution in 2016. Even if you want to jump on the Google train (there are valid reasons for this, including free outbound bandwidth to YouTube and Google Drive...), there's no excuse for App Engine. Use the other Google cloud offerings. The container stuff is top notch.
- johansch 10y agoI find the history of app engine and how it compared to the competition back then quite uninteresting. What I find interesting is how it works today.
- jedc 10y agoThey didn't "triple the price". They changed the model of what they charged and how. For some users, this definitely screwed them. For many others the list price could have gone up quite a bit, but with just a bit of performance tuning could have been perfectly fine. I speak from experience... the pricing shift incentivized me to do some refactoring, and my monthly bill dropped by ~50-60%. And AppEngine is absolutely the right solution for some users, like people who don't want anything to do with sysadmin work, configuring containers, etc. (Like myself.)
- boulos 10y agoEh, I don't know that I agree that there's no reason for App Engine. For a simple, low traffic Django app it's both simpler and cheaper than say standing it up on GCE or GKE. I hear you about the pricing change. We talk a lot about not getting pricing wrong internally (now), as that's exactly what happened. Initial trial pricing is ... dangerous. Disclosure: I work on Compute Engine.