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App Engine as a single monolithic thing has been broken out into various parts - the datastore is now Firebase (aka Cloud Datastore), the tasks queues are now C

App Engine as a single monolithic thing has been broken out into various parts - the datastore is now Firebase (aka Cloud Datastore), the tasks queues are now Cloud Tasks, the blobstore is now Google Cloud Storage, the logging system is now Stackdriver. The thing now called App Engine is the http-serving runtime, and it looks like that part is now being opensourced. There are some parts of the old monolithic GAE that have doubtful futures (full text search, image processing) and one part that we can't tell from the outside (memcache, which is slightly different from Cloud Memorystore). But overall it doesn't feel like GAE is being discontinued, just changed. I've been on GAE since the earliest days and while there have definitely been some ups and some downs, the overall offering is vastly better now.

y4mi 5y ago
Firebase was bought by Google and was in no way part of appengine. It might've been the suggested database, but that's as far as their relationship went
- stickfigure 5y ago
  > Firebase was bought by Google True. > and was in no way part of appengine. False. Google replaced the datastore with Firebase. If you use the GAE datastore API, you are now using "Firebase in Cloud Datastore Mode". Similarly, the GAE logging system was replaced with Stackdriver, also an acquisition. It doesn't matter where it came from.
  - bootloop 5y ago
    > Google replaced the Datastore with Firebase. False. They replaced the Datastore with Firestore. A new database system based on datastore but using parts of spanner so it is transactional und not eventually consistent anymore. Firebase (Realtime Database) was a garbage single mysql instance marketed as "real time database" which Google indeed bought but it wasn't able to scale in any way so it was reinvented and resulted in Firestore. Firebase != Firestore
    - stickfigure 5y ago
      That is awesome information, thank you! I've been working with the datastore for over a decade and didn't know this.

y4mi 5y ago

Firebase was bought by Google and was in no way part of appengine. It might've been the suggested database, but that's as far as their relationship went

stickfigure 5y ago
> Firebase was bought by Google True. > and was in no way part of appengine. False. Google replaced the datastore with Firebase. If you use the GAE datastore API, you are now using "Firebase in Cloud Datastore Mode". Similarly, the GAE logging system was replaced with Stackdriver, also an acquisition. It doesn't matter where it came from.
- bootloop 5y ago
  > Google replaced the Datastore with Firebase. False. They replaced the Datastore with Firestore. A new database system based on datastore but using parts of spanner so it is transactional und not eventually consistent anymore. Firebase (Realtime Database) was a garbage single mysql instance marketed as "real time database" which Google indeed bought but it wasn't able to scale in any way so it was reinvented and resulted in Firestore. Firebase != Firestore
  - stickfigure 5y ago
    That is awesome information, thank you! I've been working with the datastore for over a decade and didn't know this.