Developing in Google Cloud

[Marcelo Iturbe]

Hi,

I was pretty impressed to see the advances in kubernetes at the GCP event ... but at the same time, I cant help but feel it is a step backwards and sideways.

 

Just a bit.

 

See, we are making the effort to develop on App Engine, we went where you think we should go... so what now? we should go back to VMs and local mysql servers?

 

There was nothing mayor announced for GAE, if it was mentioned at all. Or did I miss something? Please correct me if I did.

Pricing wise, it seems more expensive since you need 3 VMs for a Container which will be used by kubernetes.

App Engine Flexible also uses VMs but not sure how the pricing for that will be once it is out of Beta.

 

So what is the future of GAE? going to fade out?

Thoughts?

[pdknsk]

There was nothing mayor announced for GAE, if it was mentioned at all. Or did I miss something? Please correct me if I did.

Other than the renaming of Managed VMs, nothing was announced. (Well, deployment to FE instances is a bit faster now.) Google will tell you though, that a lot was announced for GAE. Google sees GAE differently now that most of its users (developers) do, particularly early users. With the introduction of Managed VMs, there is basically no limit to what you can do with GAE. Almost anything from GCP (Google Cloud Platform) can now be used with GAE. So any announcement for GCP, is automatically an announcement for GAE. That's my interpretation. And that's where the development focus has shifted to. GAE core, if you like, is in maintenance mode, and has been for some years now.

[George-Cristian Bîrzan]

To be fair, it's sort of sad as the almost instant scaling is something very appealing and while not everything needs it, it's still sometimes worth the premium.

That being said, I also hope to see a python-compat like proxy for the APIs available for other runtimes, the latency difference is a bit hilarious, especially when using oauth.

On 2 Apr 2016 1:33 pm, "pdknsk" <pdk...@gmail.com> wrote:

There was nothing mayor announced for GAE, if it was mentioned at all. Or did I miss something? Please correct me if I did.

Other than the renaming of Managed VMs, nothing was announced. (Well, deployment to FE instances is a bit faster now.) Google will tell you though, that a lot was announced for GAE. Google sees GAE differently now that most of its users (developers) do, particularly early users. With the introduction of Managed VMs, there is basically no limit to what you can do with GAE. Almost anything from GCP (Google Cloud Platform) can now be used with GAE. So any announcement for GCP, is automatically an announcement for GAE. That's my interpretation. And that's where the development focus has shifted to. GAE core, if you like, is in maintenance mode, and has been for some years now.

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