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> That's why I am under the impression that at the end the gold rush for the cloud, the result would be something like Firebase. What's funny is Google Cloud i
by markdown 7y ago
> That's why I am under the impression that at the end the gold rush for the cloud, the result would be something like Firebase.
What's funny is Google Cloud is going in the opposite direction. They've pretty much destroyed the standard App Engine in the upgrade to Python 3. With the latest updates they've been moving towards becoming just another provider of dumb boxes where you do everything yourself. I'm expecting the standard App Engine to be deprecated at some point soon as they push everyone to the flexible environment (which is pretty much what you can get at any cloud provider).
- asdfasgasdgasdg 7y agoAs much as I always thought the app engine development model was pretty sweet, it seems like it just wasn't that compelling in the marketplace. You look at the biggest sites built on appengine and while there's some good stuff there it is not exactly mind blowing. If the development model were really that much more productive you'd expect there to be more there.
- markdown 7y agoI'm sure you're right, but they already had a parallel service (App Engine flexible environment) that did what all the other providers did. I don't see why they had to destroy the standard environment. It's not like they have a shortage of developers to work on it.