Clear roadmap is a real must! People are asking for this in a oot of discussions, but there is no info from Google yet. To bad I think. See also: http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_thread/thread/aab96f8adcb99725/00b76bbfc5a43a65?lnk=gst&q=overdijk#00b76bbfc5a43a65
On 30 aug, 04:02, Michael Schreifels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > > Fromhttp://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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
