Jeff's are you psychic? ;)
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 01:52, Cade Metz <cm...@theregister.co.uk> wrote: > I am, > > Cade > > On Jun 7, 2011 10:39 PM, "Jeff Schnitzer" <j...@infohazard.org> wrote: >> I assume he found my name on this group, but I didn't ask. Presumably >> he's reading this thread :-) >> >> He seemed like a nice guy. I thought the article was pretty good, and >> casts GAE in a favorable light. Bringing up MongoDB and HBase makes >> sense; along with GAE these are the three horsemen of the >> SQLpocalypse. >> >> Most of the article dealt with the question of being "locked in" to >> Google and having to deal with high-sigma events like repricing of the >> whole business. When I talk to people who haven't drank the GAE >> koolaid, this is the #1 thing they always bring up... and I have to >> admit that it's a fair criticism, especially in light of recent >> events. I don't think it's compelling compared to the terrific >> benefit of being able to develop, deploy, and scale a app without >> hiring an ops team, but I don't expect this criticism to go away. >> >> Jeff >> >> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Brandon Wirtz <drak...@digerat.com> wrote: >>> Metz reached out to me after finding me on the group, but I don't think I >>> said enough things that could be spun as bad so none of them made it in the >>> article. >>> >>> Sent from my Samsung Epic™ 4G >>> >>> "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. >>> >>> >> >> -- >> 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. 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