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I wonder how App Engine fits into this? Maybe it will be an extension of the Backend instances you can use now.
by 100k 14y ago
I wonder how App Engine fits into this? Maybe it will be an extension of the Backend instances you can use now.
- manuelflara 14y agoI've always though App Engine is kind of a half-assed version of AWS, so maybe this time they're announcing something worthy of Google's brand. With all all the infrastructure knowledge they have I always felt App Engine was way too poor a service.
- myko 14y agoWould you mind elaborating on why GAE isn't very good relative to AWS?
- egillie 14y agoGAE sandboxes you with their proprietary libraries, whereas AWS lets you write for unix/windows platform with minimal sandboxing. If you want to write a LAMP stack, you can just write a regular old LAMP stack with AWS. With GAE, you have to learn their java/python server libraries, then their blobstore/google cloud storage/googleQL, and so on.
- StavrosK 14y agoSure, but GAE has zero setup and administration and infinite scaling. Myself, I prefer something like gondor.io, that looks very much like a dedicated server but also has zero setup/administration. If price is an issue, you can't beat an actual dedicated server, though.
- edwinnathaniel 14y agoWould like to point out that one of the important information from egillie comment is this: "their java/python..." Yes, Google's version of Java. Not JDK/JEE.
- myko 14y agoThanks for the breakdown. I haven't used t he service yet but I can see how that would be painful to deal with, especially if one wants to move their service in the future.
- heretohelp 14y agoIt's only good enough for hosting blogs and experiments? GAE forces profound vendor lock-in relative to AWS, which is itself already guilty of this compared to a normal infrastructure solution.
- bradleyjg 14y ago4 years later and they still haven't figured out how to offer ssl on custom domains.
- aswanson 14y agoApp engine is a stepchild pos product. It should be deprecated and they should allow socket access, etc so that real web apps can be built on Google services.