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Technically it is really impressive but I would always worry about a future Google CEO coming in and saying. We need to concentrate on our core businesses. That

by nasmorn 15y ago

Technically it is really impressive but I would always worry about a future Google CEO coming in and saying. We need to concentrate on our core businesses. That is really only a matter of time or more correctly happens from time to time in almost every company. The amount of money google earns with GAE is so little it doesn't matter compared with ads. At this point all you need to do is engineer all the technically sophisticated systems of GAE on your own and you are good to port your app to your own stack. The good thing is should you succeed there are 100000 desperate customers waiting.

Terretta 15y ago
Assuming this is dogfooding that is being sold at (very sizable) markup, it's hard to find a case where discontinuing the offering would be important for the future CEO. If, however, Google switches to different technologies in house, then one could expect this to go away rather quickly, as its prior dogfooding driven products have once abandoned in house.
AndrewDucker 15y ago
I believe that GAE is built on the same technologies that Google use in-house, so they're unlikely to transition any time soon. But even if not, there's always AppScale: http://appscale.cs.ucsb.edu/ http://appscale.cs.ucsb.edu/
- jfoster 15y ago
  You're right. When there was a GAE outage last year, the Chrome Web Store also had an outage. I think this was the one: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2011/07/java-app-engine-outage-july-14-2011.html http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2011/07/java-app-engine-...
nextparadigms 15y ago
I doubt they will do that anytime, soon, but I agree some of the past decisions like that have really hurt them image wise, so they better be more careful of what they allow in the first place next time.
fraserharris 15y ago
Perhaps having tens of thousands of developers trained on your infrastructure has intangible benefits?
latchkey 15y ago
Now that they are out of preview mode, there is a 3 year notification process in the terms of service. That should be enough time for most people to migrate to something else. If not, then GAE probably isn't the right solution for you.

by nasmorn 15y ago

Terretta 15y ago

Assuming this is dogfooding that is being sold at (very sizable) markup, it's hard to find a case where discontinuing the offering would be important for the future CEO. If, however, Google switches to different technologies in house, then one could expect this to go away rather quickly, as its prior dogfooding driven products have once abandoned in house.

AndrewDucker 15y ago

I believe that GAE is built on the same technologies that Google use in-house, so they're unlikely to transition any time soon. But even if not, there's always AppScale: http://appscale.cs.ucsb.edu/ http://appscale.cs.ucsb.edu/

jfoster 15y ago
You're right. When there was a GAE outage last year, the Chrome Web Store also had an outage. I think this was the one: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2011/07/java-app-engine-outage-july-14-2011.html http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2011/07/java-app-engine-...

nextparadigms 15y ago

I doubt they will do that anytime, soon, but I agree some of the past decisions like that have really hurt them image wise, so they better be more careful of what they allow in the first place next time.

fraserharris 15y ago

Perhaps having tens of thousands of developers trained on your infrastructure has intangible benefits?

latchkey 15y ago

Now that they are out of preview mode, there is a 3 year notification process in the terms of service. That should be enough time for most people to migrate to something else. If not, then GAE probably isn't the right solution for you.