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Node.js on Google App Engine Goes Beta

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Re: Node.js on Google App Engine Goes Beta

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Post by aleaxit »

milesward wrote: post #89
mattbillenstein wrote: post #31

Don't use AppEngine. I migrated Homejoy off of AppEngine in 2014 and I can't recommend the platform for any reason whatsoever. It's slow, expensive, not based on OSS, and not particularly stable. Bits of it (urlfetch, search, etc) would go down for hours at a time and you're basically hosed until they fix it. I think Heroku is usable with a similar level of effort -- and you have a much easier migration path to somet…

Datastore isn't proprietary, AppScale ( http://www.appscale.com ) has built a handy OSS version which runs above Cassandra. https://github.com/AppScale/appscale Disclaimer: I work at GCP, so I'm geeked about open approaches to solving problems :)

Excellent point Miles (and as you know I work in GCP too), I would add https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2015/05/AppScale-and-Ap... and https://www.youtube.com/embed/2fRTgosMtw4?rel=0&controls=0&s... (in both of which, of course, you feature quite prominently:-)...

Re: Node.js on Google App Engine Goes Beta

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Post by aleaxit »

joeblau wrote: post #48
itaysk wrote: post #33

I'm surprised they didn't have it until now...

It's not really that surprising. They started with Python because the inventor of Python worked there. Then they added Java because... well it's Java. Then they added GoLang because they invented it. Then they added PHP because most of the internet still runs on that. So Node is the next logical step... or Ruby probably would have worked as well.

Actually, when we started (GAE) with Python, my friend Guido didn't YET work here -- I was finally able to convince him to join, shortly after GAE's launch, in part thanks to the prospect of working on GAE's Python (which is what he ended up doing here, especially developing ndb, but also many other little things). Python was at the heart of Google for long before that (read Levy's "In the 'plex"...!-) -- or I wouldn't have joined Google 11 years ago, BTW.

As for Java, well -- guess who announced Java to the world at Moscone Center in SF 21 years ago...? One Eric Schmidt, then Sun's VP for SW products (he reminisced about that this morning at his Next keynote)... who just happened to be Google's CEO when Java was announced as GAE's 2nd language!

Re: Node.js on Google App Engine Goes Beta

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Post by youareacreep »

avar wrote: post #40
ionwake2 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, Thanks for the reply. I would like to retract the statement that it was a member of staff, you are correct, this may have not been the case. It was a while ago and it may have just been someone in the know, who didn't actually work for google. I didnt expect anyone to even notice my comment. I should have been more careful with my statements. I will be removing the comment when HN allows me to log back in (appare…

> I will be removing the comment when HN allows me to log back in. In that case, here's a copy of your initial comment, because removing top-level comments that have ongoing follow-up discussion makes for very confusing discussions: > All I know about GAE is that when my python app started being used > by HN users I upgraded my account to a paid one to increase > performance. > > In the transition , without any warni…

Well that's just creepy. I bet you're known as the weird guy who won't take no for an answer, and spends his time stalking acquaintances' internet presence wistfully.
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