> Google App Engine is (was) not that hard It's incredible hard to use GAE in the same fashion as the LAMP or whatever web framework stack at its time. GAE is

> Google App Engine is (was) not that hard It's incredible hard to use GAE in the same fashion as the LAMP or whatever web framework stack at its time. GAE is a primary example of overly confident technologists anticipating the next trend: They anticipate things happening too far in the future. Of course, GAE represent the eventual next step for application development. At the time, for anyone inside Google, that's obvious. And what happened was that neither Google itself, nor the industry embraced that model in the time frame that allows GAE to be relevant.