I was wondering how he decided who to contact as well. And, I also noticed the Mongo DB comparison. That's actually the second time I've seen that comparison in a couple days now. Weird.
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 21:23, Ikai Lan (Google) <ika...@google.com> wrote: > One issue I've had with The Register is that it almost seems as if they are > trying to pit MongoDB against App Engine. If you look at one of the "Related > Articles", it's titled "MongoDB Daddy: My baby beats BigTable." If you read > the article, this is just flamebait. There's a lot of mutual respect for > what each of the teams is doing. In fact, I'm giving a MongoDB talk at a > conference in a few days. We're all in this together to build better tools > for developers. > Ikai Lan > Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine > Blog: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com > Twitter: http://twitter.com/app_engine > Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/appengine > > > On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Ikai Lan (Google) <ika...@google.com> wrote: >> >> I think it's kind of neat how I recognize every single name in that >> article. Did the author find you guys via Google Groups? >> Ikai Lan >> Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine >> Blog: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com >> Twitter: http://twitter.com/app_engine >> Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/appengine >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 5:47 AM, Andrei <gml...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> There is another article about Android >>> >>> http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9217400/Major_damages_sought_in_Oracle_Google_patent_dispute_ >>> Does this make any difference for GAE? Probably not? >>> >>> On Jun 7, 9:59 am, Joshua Smith <joshuaesm...@charter.net> wrote: >>> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/07/inside_google_app_engine/ >>> > >>> > Nice overview, and I didn't see any glaring errors. I'll be keeping a >>> > link to this to pass along whenever anyone asks me what GAE is (and >>> > isn't). >>> > An interesting observation was that many apps spill into non-GAE >>> > infrastructure when they need some functionality that GAE doesn't offer. >>> > That's true of several of our apps: one of my apps interfaces with S3 >>> > heavily because I wrote it before BlobStore existed; another uses GAE only >>> > as a massively scalable front-end "lobby" and scheduler, for access to >>> > non-GAE servers (in a private data center, and in EC2 when the private >>> > data >>> > center fills up). >>> > >>> > Also, it was interesting to see the coverage of App Scale. I was >>> > familiar with AETyphoon, but not App Scale. Nice to know there are >>> > options >>> > if google makes some really bad decisions about their pricing model in the >>> > coming months. >>> > >>> > -Joshua >>> >>> -- >>> 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. > -- 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.
