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Wow. The benefits of Google App Engine without the limitations? Sure, an app on GAE is probably cheaper in terms of monthly expense, but factor in the developme
by mmelin 16y ago
Wow. The benefits of Google App Engine without the limitations? Sure, an app on GAE is probably cheaper in terms of monthly expense, but factor in the development costs for a Java team unfamiliar with App Engine and Beanstalk is probably a far better investment.
- riffraff 16y agono, with different limitations I believe, e.g. no cool google storage, but only SDB or RDB (which may be ok anyway)
- saurik 16y agoTo me, the limitations of App Engine are things like having to use a crippled version of the programming environment (as you don't get your own computer, so they've neutered things down to something "safe") and a bunch of limitations on CPU time, request length, and background processing. (edit: I had somehow read what you said to mean, "no, but with these new limitations", so arguably I should just delete my response here, but I think that a specific list of things might be valuable still)
- nir 16y agoOn the pro side, GAE gives you a pretty big free quota - http://therealurl.appspot.com http://therealurl.appspot.com handles >1m requests/day for about $4 a week.
- brown9-2 16y agoIf you can use JDBC or SQL in your Java app with these Amazon solutions and not have to learn a new datastore API that's a pretty huge advantage.
- mumrah 16y agoAWS is not without it's "cool" storage: SimpleDB, S3, RDS. Not to mention, being within AWS with full control of your machines, you can setup any database you'd like.
- rbranson 16y agoI agree. It's definitely meh without a useful and truly scalable database. That's the hard part. SimpleDB isn't particularly useful, and RDB isn't particularly scalable.