I would agree with Dave Its is a very good platform. I have been using it since 2008. I think to get the most out of it, you have to invest some effort understanding how to use well.
The early adopters had to as there where really few scalable PAAS options then. Now there are a lot more choices, however it still has some unmatched features like to autoscaling which is hard with a lot other solutions, but for many that isn't a major criteria. The other big benefit is being a true PAAS and not having to manage OS/lower layers. Again a lot of people don't see the value vs investment in knowledge. T On Wednesday, November 1, 2017 at 9:12:45 PM UTC+8, Dave Kuhn wrote: > > Hey Torsten, it's a great question. We're mystified too! > > As others have said, initially it was an odd platform. Major web > frameworks (e.g. Django, Spring etc) didn't originally work out of the box > for a variety of reasons including the lack of a SQL database, file size > limits, slow startup times and the Java class whitelist. That was a pretty > big hurdle to overcome for most developers. Thankfully Google's put a ton > of investment into the platform recently which has alleviated most, if not > all of the pain there. > > I work at an agency called 3wks which has built over 200 projects on it > over the last five years. In fact we work almost exclusively with GAE these > days. I suppose we've learned a little bit about the platform by now – and > we love it. It scales like a dream, not to mention it's super reliable. > We've built everything from major media sites to payments platforms on it. > Better still we haven't had to hire a single devops person in that whole > time. > > PM if you'd like to chat further. > > On Tuesday, October 24, 2017 at 12:03:33 AM UTC+11, Torsten Därr wrote: >> >> Hi, I'm not a web developer but I've been running websites for many years >> having them created by web development companies. I've been trying to find >> a good company that is familiar with Google App Engine because I do believe >> that the Google ecosystem is the right choice for my next sites and >> projects. Can you give me any idea as to how I can find a web developing >> company that has been using Google App Engine for a while successfully? >> Many thanks, Torsten >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/75d15029-72c6-4489-bb5f-b86086a946a6%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
