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Christ some of the comments here are so cynical. I’ve only skimmed the docs so far but I believe they offer a full turnkey no config required solution for 2 fr

by mdhb 2y ago

Christ some of the comments here are so cynical. I’ve only skimmed the docs so far but I believe they offer a full turnkey no config required solution for 2 frameworks currently but like Cloud Run you can bring literally whatever you like here as a backend assuming you can get it into a container. Looking over the feature set this honestly looks amazing and is ironically where most businesses want to ultimately get to (everything is integrated, security, performance, logging etc all just work, no resource wastage, proper separation of concerns etc). Honestly this might actually be the best starting point going on the internet right now for many businesses.

threatofrain 2y ago
ML has slightly reset the cloud game in terms of which vendors have proprietary models.
solardev 2y ago
Where does it say anything about being your old backend? It just looks like another JS host like Vercel or Netlify?
solardev 2y ago
Google historically hasn't been very strong in the cloud services area. In the places I've worked, I'm often the only advocate for (and only user of) GCloud offerings like Cloud Run or App Engine – which are IMO much easier to use than AWS offerings. But then Vercel leapfrogged the legacy clouds just by white-labeling and packaging their individual offerings into a nice GUI, combining basic file hosting, a Node server, a CDN, serverless, KV, DB, etc... while simultaneously building up Next.js. These days it takes only like 3-5 minutes and like two clicks to deploy a new Next (or other framework) codebase to Vercel. It all "just works" too, and is free for dev projects and $20/mo for their basic paid plan (which is enough to build off of). The cynicism is well-deserved, IMO, when Google is so late to this space (there are many companies doing this already), so quick to sunset everything, and seemingly completely preoccupied with AI these days. After the market failure of Angular, they seemed to stop caring about boring business web apps as anything more than a side thought. It's a very risky move to launch a startup on their stack.

by mdhb 2y ago

threatofrain 2y ago

ML has slightly reset the cloud game in terms of which vendors have proprietary models.

solardev 2y ago

Where does it say anything about being your old backend? It just looks like another JS host like Vercel or Netlify?

solardev 2y ago

Google historically hasn't been very strong in the cloud services area. In the places I've worked, I'm often the only advocate for (and only user of) GCloud offerings like Cloud Run or App Engine – which are IMO much easier to use than AWS offerings. But then Vercel leapfrogged the legacy clouds just by white-labeling and packaging their individual offerings into a nice GUI, combining basic file hosting, a Node server, a CDN, serverless, KV, DB, etc... while simultaneously building up Next.js. These days it takes only like 3-5 minutes and like two clicks to deploy a new Next (or other framework) codebase to Vercel. It all "just works" too, and is free for dev projects and $20/mo for their basic paid plan (which is enough to build off of). The cynicism is well-deserved, IMO, when Google is so late to this space (there are many companies doing this already), so quick to sunset everything, and seemingly completely preoccupied with AI these days. After the market failure of Angular, they seemed to stop caring about boring business web apps as anything more than a side thought. It's a very risky move to launch a startup on their stack.