Thanks for the collection of links, very useful. Hacker News isn't the fount of wisdom it once was (if its mythology is to be believed), but here's the money quote from a Hacker News thread:
I guess I felt that my implicit feelings on App Engine were something like, "Hey hackers! You should totally rewrite your apps for our Google systems that are a lot more efficient than other systems. Yeah, there are some annoying restrictions that you'll have to get used to and are totally a pain for some things. Still, out service is cheap for loads of usage and really cheap even after that so you're spending a little programmer time for no-hassle-scaling and cheaper hosting than anything you can get!" However, they've consistently lowered the free usage tier to being a fraction of what it once was, they're now charging a ton more with their instance-hour model compared to the old CPU based model, a bit of the reliability/scaling sheen has worn off as it's had problems, other competitors have been aggressively entering this space, and you still have to alter your apps specifically for their architecture. I'm not saying that App Engine doesn't have value, just that it feels very different. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2533898 saidimu On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Vanni Totaro <vanni.tot...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Greg, > > no FAQ from you yet... > so in the meanwhile here it is a list of links you (and Ikai, Nick, Justin, > etc.) should visit to know what gae users said in the last couple of days > about pricing news. > > GAE Forum topics: > > http://code.google.com/appengine/forum/?place=topic%2Fgoogle-appengine%2FVCYbRH4WWBI%2Fdiscussion > > http://code.google.com/appengine/forum/?place=topic%2Fgoogle-appengine%2Fig3iefPvvzc%2Fdiscussion > > http://code.google.com/appengine/forum/?place=topic%2Fgoogle-appengine%2F8qFRSYBCXUs%2Fdiscussion > > http://code.google.com/appengine/forum/?place=topic%2Fgoogle-appengine%2FI34-L5CFCTM%2Fdiscussion > > http://code.google.com/appengine/forum/?place=topic%2Fgoogle-appengine%2FD-9KTCKlADk%2Fdiscussion > > http://code.google.com/appengine/forum/?place=topic%2Fgoogle-appengine%2FxwCz5MF_zpw%2Fdiscussion > > http://code.google.com/appengine/forum/?place=topic%2Fgoogle-appengine%2FavsuoqrJXu8%2Fdiscussion > > http://code.google.com/appengine/forum/?place=topic%2Fgoogle-appengine%2FS1VY_7M9RZg%2Fdiscussion > > http://code.google.com/appengine/forum/?place=topic%2Fgoogle-appengine%2F48RZl_m2uG0%2Fdiscussion > > http://code.google.com/appengine/forum/?place=topic%2Fgoogle-appengine%2F6DLRc1GXNYY%2Fdiscussion > > http://code.google.com/appengine/forum/?place=topic%2Fgoogle-appengine%2FHs9iLKB6sUM%2Fdiscussion > > http://code.google.com/appengine/forum/?place=topic%2Fgoogle-appengine%2FnevG0iZ9WHw%2Fdiscussion > > http://code.google.com/appengine/forum/?place=topic%2Fgoogle-appengine%2F_l06D9uBZpI%2Fdiscussion > > http://code.google.com/appengine/forum/?place=topic%2Fgoogle-appengine%2FdH_LmXNAL9k%2Fdiscussion > > http://code.google.com/appengine/forum/python-forum.html?place=topic%2Fgoogle-appengine-python%2FOUexOoyjnak%2Fdiscussion > > http://code.google.com/appengine/forum/java-forum.html?place=topic%2Fgoogle-appengine-java%2F1jfPXqdz_LA%2Fdiscussion > > http://code.google.com/appengine/forum/java-forum.html?place=topic%2Fgoogle-appengine-java%2F8ulE2tOW-Co%2Fdiscussion > > GAE Blog comments: > > http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2011/05/year-ahead-for-google-app-engine.html > http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2011/05/app-engine-150-release.html > > http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2011/05/app-engine-at-io-2011-day-2.html > > Hacker News comments: > http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2533416 > http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2533413 > > Reddit comments: > > http://www.reddit.com/r/AppEngine/comments/h8sue/rip_appengine_xpost_from_rpython/ > http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/h8stj/rip_appengine/ > > http://www.reddit.com/r/AppEngine/comments/h8971/new_app_engine_pricing_what_do_you_think/ > http://www.reddit.com/r/AppEngine/comments/h86jq/go_app_engine/ > http://www.reddit.com/r/AppEngine/comments/h8ib4/app_engine_150_released/ > > Regards, > Vanni > > -- > 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 > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > -- 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 google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
