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When I first started dabbling into trying to do something on my own, Google App Engine (GAE) seemed the easiest to understand and get off the ground. And the fa

When I first started dabbling into trying to do something on my own, Google App Engine (GAE) seemed the easiest to understand and get off the ground. And the fact that everything 'just worked' and didn't require setting up stuff was awesome in my opinion. GAE Launcher was the cherry on the cake which is why it was such a bummer when they deprecated it (and this led to my current side project - https://nocommandline.com https://nocommandline.com - which is a replacement for GAE Launcher). I was initially worried GAE wouldn't survive but finding out that Khan Academy is hosted on GAE [1] gave me confidence of its longevity. I once tried looking at AWS and it took me awhile to figure out they had a PaaS and trying to set it up essentially gave me a headache (keep in mind that I'm not a 9-5 programmer). 1. https://cloud.google.com/customers/khan-academy https://cloud.google.com/customers/khan-academy

sneak 6y ago
It astounds me to this day that AWS doesn't have a heroku-style "five clicks to have a github repo deploying at a url" PaaS offerring. Beanstalk ain't it, and they cloned DO's "create a VM wizard" (Lightsail) but still no simple GitHub oauth webhook build/deploy. PaaS is such a great and convenient model. It seems a major oversight to me on AWS's part.
- boromisp 6y ago
  Look up AWS Amplify
  - sneak 6y ago
    Looks like that's a Netlify competitor for building and hosting purely static sites.
    - koblas 6y ago
      It does a lot more than that. You can quickly add lambda functions. https://docs.amplify.aws/cli/function https://docs.amplify.aws/cli/function
      - orf 6y ago
        Same with Netlify
- e12e 6y ago
  Doesn't heroku run on aws? Ie: aws makes money from heroku?
wodenokoto 6y ago
Isn’t Snapchat also running on GAE ?