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I'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
by manuelflara 14y ago
I'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.