This service looks pretty good. After Google dropped Wave, I more or less stopped using AppEngine (useful for Wave robots). I think that their charging a higher price for AppEngine makes it look more appealing (because the service is less likely to be cancelled). Still I was pretty sure I would just go with my own servers and AWS in the future.
My opinion changed when I started working as a contractor at Google 2 months ago. I love the Google infrastructure, from inside the company. It is amazing (that is an understatement!). When my project is done next year and I go home, I am fairly sure that I will go back to using AppEngine, and other services for my own projects just out of nostalgia.
For the general public, I am not sure if the AppEngine and other Google services story is a good one though. It will be interesting to see how their market share for the PaaS does over the next few years.
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This service looks pretty good. After Google dropped Wave, I more or less stopped using AppEngine (useful for Wave robots). I think that their charging a higher price for AppEngine makes it look more appealing (because the service is less likely to be cancelled). Still I was pretty sure I would just go with my own servers and AWS in the future.
My opinion changed when I started working as a contractor at Google 2 months ago. I love the Google infrastructure, from inside the company. It is amazing (that is an understatement!). When my project is done next year and I go home, I am fairly sure that I will go back to using AppEngine, and other services for my own projects just out of nostalgia.
For the general public, I am not sure if the AppEngine and other Google services story is a good one though. It will be interesting to see how their market share for the PaaS does over the next few years.
What are the key differences between their internal services and what they provide via AppEngine etc.?