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I guess that either the complexity of large updates (like JDK 7 to 8) is high or that Google aren't investing many resources into GAE. The release notes (or la

I guess that either the complexity of large updates (like JDK 7 to 8) is high or that Google aren't investing many resources into GAE. The release notes (or lack of) says a lot: https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/wiki/SdkReleaseNotes https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/wiki/SdkReleaseNot... Given the focus on other cloud products (like being able to run Docker images) I would be surprised if Google continued to add new features to GAE. It seems like it's growing cobwebs... I actually like GAE as a concept, but I had a very bad experience with their Google Cloud endpoints: bad documentation, bad tooling and bad bugs. Even when I got it up and running to implement a custom authenticator was a mess and the performance wasn't what I'd expect. This got much better, especially with the official Maven plugin: but I'm really concerned that Google aren't 100% behind GAE and development could cease at any moment. An official statement would be good. But like so much at Google it's not forthcoming.

Strom 11y ago
I've been using GAE for 6 years now and while the pace of supporting/fixing stuff has always been slow, it has indeed been on a steady decline ever since Compute Engine got announced. GAE for me is a nice lesson to not rely on closed source solutions, where I can't go and fix mission critical stuff myself. I've got confirmed bug reports over 4 years old that still aren't fixed [1], and I got serious deadlock bugs on Windows over a year old, that got applied low priority with the recommendation to use another OS. [2] In general I really like GAE, but the complete lack of support & dedication from Google and the shifting of resoures to other products makes me sad. [1] https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4744 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4... [2] https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10827 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1...
- joshstrange 11y ago
  It's not the same thing exactly but you might want to check out AppScale which is an "Open Source Implementation of Google App Engine": https://github.com/AppScale/appscale https://github.com/AppScale/appscale

Strom 11y ago

I've been using GAE for 6 years now and while the pace of supporting/fixing stuff has always been slow, it has indeed been on a steady decline ever since Compute Engine got announced. GAE for me is a nice lesson to not rely on closed source solutions, where I can't go and fix mission critical stuff myself. I've got confirmed bug reports over 4 years old that still aren't fixed [1], and I got serious deadlock bugs on Windows over a year old, that got applied low priority with the recommendation to use another OS. [2] In general I really like GAE, but the complete lack of support & dedication from Google and the shifting of resoures to other products makes me sad. [1] https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4744 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4... [2] https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10827 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1...

joshstrange 11y ago
It's not the same thing exactly but you might want to check out AppScale which is an "Open Source Implementation of Google App Engine": https://github.com/AppScale/appscale https://github.com/AppScale/appscale