The real cost: *My professional credibility.* That is something that is of immeasurable value and is now in the toilet. I do not see how it is recoverable and the loss to me is far beyond the not-inconsequential costs of migrating to EC2, Heroku (oh look, it runs java as a few days ago), Rackspace or Linode.
I have spent the last year or so being a *very* vocal advocate of GAE. I have advocated to start-ups in the San Diego community and at events like Start Up Weekend, that teams use GAE: we're starting from scratch, so we * can* write our apps to follow the strange rules of GAE. I did so on the rational and reasonable belief that we had to write the apps this way because they allowed google to run our apps more efficiently than if we just spin up Tomcat. I assumed that there was secret sauce. I assumed that Google had done what Google does: looked at the data and done the math. Instead, it looks to me that they just thought of some ideas that *might* make things more efficient, but guessed wrong. * *Myself, and others who listened to me, have spent man-years writing software with onerous rules for not only zero benefit, but in fact vendor lock-in to higher costs. And while it will be possible to recover our dollar costs by migrating our apps to EC2, Heroku, etc, *I will not be able to recover my credibility*. *How Google can make this right* I put a lot of effort into learning the GAE Way. *That investment needs to pay off.* If the hoops we had to jump through turned out to be the wrong hoops, tell us what the right hoops are. There *is* an *engineering*solution to efficient (low cost), scalable app hosting. I bet my reputation on it. The GAE team needs to make that happen, not throw in the towel. If that means we need quota for things like RAM, fine. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine-java/-/mJlqNCC4YK4J. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine-java@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en.
