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This is a fascinating post as it gives away something about the Google GAE culture perhaps. Some examples: "multi quarters" of work is odd phraseology. Does th

This is a fascinating post as it gives away something about the Google GAE culture perhaps. Some examples: "multi quarters" of work is odd phraseology. Does the GAE team prefer smaller, easier to schedule, features to longer more difficult projects to keep pace with development of the underyling toolset? "pretty open" "as long as you sign an NDA" is borderline oxymoronic. "enterprise focused" speaks for itself.

zerkten 8y ago
> "pretty open" "as long as you sign an NDA" is borderline oxymoronic. > "enterprise focused" speaks for itself. GAE is a business and has a niche. Perhaps they'd really be dead if they didn't focus on a set of paying customers. NDAs are the norm for enterprise and are reasonable given that they want to maintain their niche. It's less reasonable for me to comment on their development/deployment methodology since I don't work at Google, but multiple quarters of work doesn't seem unusual for getting products like these deployed across multiple global data centers and achieve the kind of reliability required by these customers.