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Ask HN: Who uses Google App Engine
What do you use it for? Why did you choose it? Are you happy with your decision?
- domrdy 13y agoWe used appengine at a major european car rental company I was working for back then. We deployed a one instance mirror/backup of our booking app which basically cost us nothing. In case our servers, which we kept inhouse, were somehow unreachable we would forward all traffic to appengine and scale up accordingly. After the issue was resolved we would use various mapreduce jobs to migrate new bookings, cancellations etc. back to our servers. The app was written in python with flask on top. To store data we used the NDB Api which was a blast to work with. Overall a really nice experience.
- liuh 13y agoI used Appengine to host a static website for free, a immigration law firm http://www.cbulaw.com/ http://www.cbulaw.com/. I built it with Django and exported all pages as static files.
- rman666 13y agoDoes it support Ruby?
- dragonwriter 13y agoNot directly, but I understand that JRuby can be used on the Java runtime.
- factorialboy 13y agoPython, Java, Go-lang and now apparently PHP.
- aton 13y agoDoes the fact that no one has left any comment yet indicate that not many people here use app engine?
- pvdm 13y agoGave it a try but gave up. Looking at compute engine.
- dolphenstein 13y agoI use it. I like that I don't have to worry about scalability and administration is a breeze. I'm happy with it! Been using it since 2009.
- tagabek 13y agoI used it in the past when I learned Python - I built small apps that were just for fun. It's a powerful engine, and has a lot of nice features. I'm pretty happy with starting there, because I moved on to Xcode afterwards.
- 27182818284 13y agoI gave it a try, but I found it too annoyingly restricting. I'd rather just roll my own linux servers since I grew up (I know I'm young) with Fedora Core 2.
- factorialboy 13y agoTried it. High costs, technology lock-in burnt my fingers. Moved to open technologies and not "platforms".
- argonaut 13y agoKhan Academy uses it for their entire site.
- sanatgersappa 13y agoYou can find a list here - https://cloud.google.com/customers/ https://cloud.google.com/customers/