I assume he found my name on this group, but I didn't ask. Presumably he's reading this thread :-)
He seemed like a nice guy. I thought the article was pretty good, and casts GAE in a favorable light. Bringing up MongoDB and HBase makes sense; along with GAE these are the three horsemen of the SQLpocalypse. Most of the article dealt with the question of being "locked in" to Google and having to deal with high-sigma events like repricing of the whole business. When I talk to people who haven't drank the GAE koolaid, this is the #1 thing they always bring up... and I have to admit that it's a fair criticism, especially in light of recent events. I don't think it's compelling compared to the terrific benefit of being able to develop, deploy, and scale a app without hiring an ops team, but I don't expect this criticism to go away. Jeff On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Brandon Wirtz <[email protected]> wrote: > Metz reached out to me after finding me on the group, but I don't think I > said enough things that could be spun as bad so none of them made it in the > article. > > Sent from my Samsung Epic™ 4G > > "Ikai Lan (Google)" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>I think it's kind of neat how I recognize every single name in that article. >>Did the author find you guys via Google Groups? >> >>Ikai Lan >>Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine >>Blog: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com >>Twitter: http://twitter.com/app_engine >>Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/appengine >> >> >> >>On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 5:47 AM, Andrei <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> There is another article about Android >>> >>> http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9217400/Major_damages_sought_in_Oracle_Google_patent_dispute_ >>> Does this make any difference for GAE? Probably not? >>> >>> On Jun 7, 9:59 am, Joshua Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/07/inside_google_app_engine/ >>> > >>> > Nice overview, and I didn't see any glaring errors. I'll be keeping a >>> link to this to pass along whenever anyone asks me what GAE is (and isn't). >>> An interesting observation was that many apps spill into non-GAE >>> infrastructure when they need some functionality that GAE doesn't offer. >>> That's true of several of our apps: one of my apps interfaces with S3 >>> heavily because I wrote it before BlobStore existed; another uses GAE only >>> as a massively scalable front-end "lobby" and scheduler, for access to >>> non-GAE servers (in a private data center, and in EC2 when the private data >>> center fills up). >>> > >>> > Also, it was interesting to see the coverage of App Scale. I was >>> familiar with AETyphoon, but not App Scale. Nice to know there are options >>> if google makes some really bad decisions about their pricing model in the >>> coming months. >>> > >>> > -Joshua >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Google App Engine" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. >>> >>> >> >>-- >>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>"Google App Engine" group. >>To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>[email protected]. >>For more options, visit this group at >>http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
