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Both Google Compute Engine and Google Container Engine are Generally Available (i.e not experimental) and will run Java 8 and Python 3. App Engine != all of Go
by thesandlord 10y ago
Both Google Compute Engine and Google Container Engine are Generally Available (i.e not experimental) and will run Java 8 and Python 3.
App Engine != all of Google Cloud Platform
(I work on Google Cloud)
- skizm 10y agoCool. Thanks. Containers seem overkill, but compute engine seems like it would work. FWIW "Compute Engine" makes it seem like some API for machine learning or big data processing. I would not have guessed it was Google's version of EC2.
- boulos 10y agoI don't blame you, sadly because "Search Engine" everything here is called "X Engine" (including say Maps Engine). If you're familiar with AWS services, we made a little mapping guide: https://cloud.google.com/docs/compare/aws/ https://cloud.google.com/docs/compare/aws/ .
- skizm 10y agoEngine (to me) also implies a monolithic process where something goes in one end, work is done, and something is produced. A compute engine computes things, a search engine searches things, a game engine does game computations, etc.
- thesandlord 10y agoTo add to the confusion: GCE = Google Compute Engine GKE = Google Container Engine (Kubernetes) To be fair, EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) is not exactly clear either. I guess Azure has the clearest naming with it comes to VMs, literally Virtual Machines.