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This is all just wild speculation but I wonder if some hosting company will come out with a "compatible" api for when you want to leave Google.
by nirmal 19y ago
This is all just wild speculation but I wonder if some hosting company will come out with a "compatible" api for when you want to leave Google.
- lux 19y agoOr an open source project to create a compatible framework... That way you could choose from many hosts :)
- ph0rque 19y agoMaybe Google could speed up the process and make the app engine framework open-source :~).
- lux 19y agoThat would be totally awesome, and you could make the case that it benefits them to have their App Engine platform become a more standardized/open framework!
- nirmal 19y agobetter to let us white hats find the flaws :) no buffer overflows or fork bombs in this sandbox baby.
- andreyf 19y agoI think they already did (kind of). As far as I can tell from a quick glance, this is Django on top of Google's infrastructure. But they aren't about to open-source their infrastructure.
- apathy 19y agoBut they aren't about to open-source their infrastructure. Wouldn't matter if they did -- you can't open-source a bunch of contracts with trucking companies, nor would any sane company want to open-source their testing routines for the hardware they build in house to manage the mess. Parts of the infrastructure are, however, published as patents :-) Google's operational efficiency in deploying new capacity is the crushing advantage they possess over 99.999% of the companies on the planet.