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Damn. Jeff On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Robert Kluin <[email protected]> wrote: > Jeff's are you psychic? ;) > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 01:52, Cade Metz <[email protected]> wrote: >> I am, >> >> Cade >> >> On Jun 7, 2011 10:39 PM, "Jeff Schnitzer" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> 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. >>> >> >> -- >> 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. 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