> The App Engine platform is a way to build massively scalable CRUD- > style web apps by sticking to a few simple constraints. It's perfect > for situational apps, one-offs, hobby projects, all of which can now > survive slashdotting without arcane architectural hacks. What's not to > love about that? Why criticize it for not being something it isn't > designed to be?
> I missed where anyone from Google claimed to be looking for businesses > to develop their commercial applications on App Engine. Do you have > any pointers to such public statements? I think App Engine *is* targeting startups and other small businesses without the time, interest, or money to build a scalable infrastructure around them. >From http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=489 -- the AE project manager: “We’re much more suitable for the consumer marketplace during the preview release.” Now let's think about this. Google creates an infrastructure to create web applications with a seemingly infinite amount of no-hassle scaling (for a price, of course). Are they really targeting Joe Brown who is creating a website to share pictures of his new kid with his family? Of course not. The quota is theoretically capable of serving 5 million users for free. If we are just talking about mere hobbyists with a few hits a day, how would users ever exceed the quota and allow Google to charge them money?! But if Google is shooting for businesses, why did the product manager say it's best suited for the consumer marketplace ("DURING THE PREVIEW RELEASE")? "...citing as examples the lack of an SLA and the ceilings on usage that result in a denial of service when exceeding the limits..." Sounds like two problems that are most certainly going to be fixed after the preview. > I don't see how App Engine is "in competition" with Amazon. The > services (GAE vs EC2/S3/SQS/etc.) are not comparable. Amazon's > offerings are much lower-level, and require a great deal of tech savvy > to exploit. I use (and adore) the Amazon stack where appropriate, but > would never even think of using it for a web app like my wordle.net. > It would be like building a whole factory, from scratch, to sell > lemonade from my driveway. A lot of websites hosted on Amazon are just that--regular old CRUD apps. GAE doesn't offer anything close to the control that Amazon does, but I bet there are a lot of Amazon customers that would trade their control for the worry-free scaling of AE. They both are attacking the same problem, but very differently. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
