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It is a fully-managed application platform. So far, I do not know a platform which comes close to GAE's full package: log management, mail delivery, scaling, me
by marktangotango 9y ago
It is a fully-managed application platform. So far, I do not know a platform which comes close to GAE's full package: log management, mail delivery, scaling, memcache, image manipulation, distributed Cron jobs, load balancing, version management, task queue, search, performance analysis, cloud debugging, content delivery network - and that is not even mentioning auxiliary services that have popped up on Google's cloud in the meantime like SQL, BigQuery, file storage... the list goes on.
I think the promise was never actually realized. When first released, you didn't have to worry about load balancing instances or scaling, it was "internet scale", out of the box, dependent only on your traffic. Then they went to the per instance pricing and raised prices.
I was really disappointed no service ever arose to fill this gap; internet scale as service you could say.
- rak00n 9y agoThey still have the autoscaling. "Internet scale" doesn't mean we can ask for more resources without paying more.
- throwaway713824 9y agoI remember reading at least one case study of someone standing up an online poll related to a sporting event that got 100k's users over a few days on GAE, really impressive at the time. You can still do that of course, but now you're dealing with load balancers and instances, a lot more admin overhead. It is/was a total walled garden, but for scale and ease of use like that, it was really worth the sacrifice. I really don't understand why everyone wants to be wrangling containers/instances nowadays.
- sudhirj 9y agoMoving to the charge by time instead of by CPU doesn’t change the scale or the functioning of the system. They just realised that inactive apps also consumed resources. And AWS Lambda has sort of picked up on this. Not exactly the same but very close.