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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 Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 7:23 AM, Andrei <gml...@gmail.com> wrote: > Here is another piece of info from guy who worked 10 years for Google > http://rethrick.com/#waving-goodbye > > And this relates to GAE > > Speed > > Here is something you've may have heard but never quite believed > before: Google's vaunted scalable software infrastructure is obsolete. > Don't get me wrong, their hardware and datacenters are the best in the > world, and as far as I know, nobody is close to matching it. But the > software stack on top of it is 10 years old, aging and designed for > building search engines and crawlers. And it is well and truly > obsolete. > > Protocol Buffers, BigTable and MapReduce are ancient, creaking > dinosaurs compared to MessagePack, JSON, and Hadoop. And new projects > like GWT, Closure and MegaStore are sluggish, overengineered > Leviathans compared to fast, elegant tools like jQuery and mongoDB. > Designed by engineers in a vacuum, rather than by developers who have > need of tools. > > In the short time I've been outside Google I've created entire apps in > Java in the space of a single workday. (Yes, you can program as > quickly in Java as in Ruby or Python, if you understand your tools > well.) I've gotten prototypes off the ground, shown it to people, or > deployed them with hardly any barriers. > > 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.
