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Wondering where this magic lives in the stack. Is this possible in Knative? Just elaborate ctl-Z?
Yes: https://knative.dev/docs/serving/autoscaling/scale-bounds/#u...
I also wrote about it: https://livebook.manning.com/book/knative-in-action/chapter-...
This is probably not a response to the other story this week about a start-up that got a $70k bill from Google cloud erroneously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25372336
This is probably not a response to the other story this week about a start-up that got a $70k bill from Google cloud erroneously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25372336
AppEngine has had scale-to-zero for 15 years, but instead of having a coherent product strategy, why not just launch a different competing product every year which is missing features that already exist? AppEngine vs Cloud Functions vs Cloud Run, the reasons these all exist at the same time is not because it makes any sense for customers, but because Google PMs get promoted for launching new things rather than suppor…
I disagree. App Engine is nothing like Cloud Functions/Run. The former is a better fit for your entire app stack (think Heroku) while the latter is for ad-hoc. As for Cloud Functions and Cloud Run, the way you deploy is completely different. Cloud Run is strictly meant for containers.
This isn't true. App Engine Flexible is in fact very similar to Cloud Run, and my understanding is that it runs on the same infrastructure. In fact, App Engine Flexible "Custom Runtime", which lets you load a docker container in App Engine, is very similar to Cloud Run.
FWIW, though, as a user of App Engine Flexible for Node, I'm very glad this Cloud Run option now exists.
AppEngine has had scale-to-zero for 15 years, but instead of having a coherent product strategy, why not just launch a different competing product every year which is missing features that already exist? AppEngine vs Cloud Functions vs Cloud Run, the reasons these all exist at the same time is not because it makes any sense for customers, but because Google PMs get promoted for launching new things rather than suppor…
Worse than that. Its AppEngine Standard vs AppEngine Flex vs Cloud Functions vs Cloud Run vs KNative (Cloud Run, but different). Oh and if you used AppEngine Standard, you can't move to Flex as Flex came with a whole new set of libraries. And Flex to CloudRun didn't exactly have a seamless migration. Along the way they changed multiple internals with deprecation causing code base changes. Such-as Memecache, ImageAPI,…
The technology of a vendor is way less important than its culture. So far Gcloud seems to understand that. Maybe the App Engine team is outside that org
So if there's something always running .... isn't the same as having on always on server (with auto scaling of some sort)?
It seems they want to replace their managed AppEngine service through Cloud Run in the long run.
I dont think it's that simple to replace one service with another. It requires a lot of very sensitive dealing with external customers. And one cannot (easily) use the typical "Google deprecation" on a Cloud service offering, either.
So it's complicated. But your impression is not too far from the inclination.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I disagree. App Engine is nothing like Cloud Functions/Run. The former is a better fit for your entire app stack (think Heroku) while the latter is for ad-hoc. As for Cloud Functions and Cloud Run, the way you deploy is completely different. Cloud Run is strictly meant for containers.
I don't think the 3 products are serving as diverse a set of use cases as you think... > The former is a better fit for your entire app stack (think Heroku) while the latter is for ad-hoc. There's no product reason why App Engine couldn't start deploying custom containers. > As for Cloud Functions and Cloud Run, the way you deploy is completely different. Cloud Run is strictly meant for containers. AWS Lambda (arguab…
There better not be because it already does: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/custom-runt...
Does this apply to Firebase functions as well?
This is a response to this AWS Lambda launch, over a year later: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/new-for-aws-lambda-pred...
The GCP equivalent to Lambda is Cloud Functions.