Good points. A little feedback would go a long way here. Especially on the SSL issue. Right now this has been a hobbyist endeavor for me because of the lack of a clear cut roadmap. GAE is fun....but fun does not pay the bills!
On Aug 27, 6:37 pm, Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I understand and also worry a little about the long-term roadmap for > App Engine as a significant Google offering. AWS has a much larger > community and with the addition of persistent storage and sorting of > Query results, Amazon is rapidly shoring up their deficiencies. That > said, the two services target different audiences since you still have > to do a lot of infrastructure management to get something like App > Engine on top of AWS. (Or you can pay RightScale or others to do it.) > > Also, App Engine is significantly younger than AWS. Forum traffic and > articles on Amazon EC2 was light at the beginning as well. IMHO, I > think a lot of programmers are waiting for pay-as-you-go and possibly > https. Beta AWS services start with pricing and charging at launch. > EC2/SimpleDB programmers will be more self-selected than Google App > Engine developers because you have to know the full stack (from OS on > AMI on up). I can also see a lot of small development shops going the > App Engine route because (1) free resources up to a certain point and > (2) little infrastructure issues. > > I've been impressed with the Google App Engine team but also wonder > how much support they can draw from Google. Jeff Bezos attends AWS > events and provides a clear signal that they view AWS as a core > offering. I think Yahoo management will do the same if Yahoo launches > their version of App Engine. Having stars like GvR on the App Engine > team sends a signal as well, but it's different than having top > executives talk up the service. > > On Aug 27, 3:09 pm, javaDinosaur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I am starting to have doubts about continuing to develop my > > applications for GAE. My concerns are not technical although I have a > > some anxieties about transaction data propagation performance. > > > My concerns center around Google’s commitment to the App Engine > > project. Compared to Amazon’s Web Service forums this place feels like > > a technical backwater. Developers hosting on Amazon AWS post > > interesting questions and get deep-dive replies promptly from Amazon > > staff. Amazon is releasing new Cloud development services monthly yet > > all we get is minor patches. > > > Here on the GAE forum elementary questions about how GAE ticks go > > unanswered for months. Basic roadmap type info such as will we get SSL > > or scheduled tasks is missing. > > > I just feel that the GAE Team is not building up any development > > stream in what should be the last 4 month run up to the year-end > > release. Communication with the developer community here is abysmal > > compared to the investment in developer relations made by companies > > such as Microsoft, Redhat or Amazon. > > > What’s happened to the early buzz Google? Has the top bass pinched > > half the team to firefight problems on another project?- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
