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Yeah, good luck stealing customers from someone else by developing for a third party's arbitrary stack, that they manage and update as they see fit, lacks tons

Yeah, good luck stealing customers from someone else by developing for a third party's arbitrary stack, that they manage and update as they see fit, lacks tons of critical components, often sees unreported downtimes, and isn't flexible when your business needs change.

stickfigure 15y ago
As someone who's been building major production applications on GAE for the last three years (and on traditional stacks for the decade prior), it's obvious that you haven't even cracked the manual. GAE is not perfect but it's a much faster environment to develop on than IaaS services like EC2. I spend 100% of my time developing features and 0% of my time developing infrastructure. "DevOps" isn't even a job description in my present company. It is true that there are occasionally some components (eg large memory indexes) that need to be "outsourced" to other parts of the cloud. It's trivial to do, but we judge each very carefully because of the added operational load.