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App Engine has a lot of really awesome features going for it. There are some pains for sure, but not the ones you find people typically griping about. The datas
by OmarIsmail 15y ago
App Engine has a lot of really awesome features going for it. There are some pains for sure, but not the ones you find people typically griping about. The datastore and all of that aren't a big deal. What's annoying is the lack of library compatibility, and no real SSL suport. Having access to a relatively small subset of available libraries for Java/Python sucks, each time you find a library you'll have to find out for yourself it it works on AE or not.
As for SSL. I mean come on. It's 2011, it's absolutely unbelievable they don't support SSL for custom domains. Unbelievable.
- axiom 15y agoThere are ways to hack around the lack of SSL on third party domains with Ajax, but yeah it's pretty insane that they still haven't got that in place.
- marcc 15y agoCompletely agree that it's a much needed feature. We've worked around that by setting up an nginx server in AWS which has proxies to the https://*.appspot.com https://*.appspot.com name. So it's still SSL all the way, but we just didn't want appspot.com as the URL we gave out.
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- spicyj 15y ago> The datastore and all of that aren't a big deal. Why do you say that?
- StavrosK 15y agoBecause the HR datastore works very well (or so I've heard), and I haven't had any problems with the M/S datastore.
- mgorsuch 15y agoFWIW, offering SSL is a giant pita considering that it requires a unique IP address for each endpoint. Scaling that is not easy. Add the diminishing pool of IP4 space to that and you've got something that you have to think very carefully about.