On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 7:07 PM, jon <jonni.g...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Assume #3. Use a different email provider. There are countless to choose >> from. > > Jeff can you recommend one?
We're about to integrate with messagebus.com but I don't know enough about their service yet to give the big thumbs up. They're run by very cool people, so all lights are green so far. I'm pretty close to adopting a "startup-only" policy for service providers. The support we've been getting from MessageBus and WePay (especially WePay!) has been nothing short of astounding. You'll never get the time of day out of Amazon or PayPal. Despite Google's silence on this particular issue (which I suspect is due to a questionable commitment), the support here in this forum has been really good - I'm not sure if you realize it, but the people answering questions in this forum are often the actual engineers developing features. As far as email goes - personally, I'd rather Appengine shut down the email API and put those developers to work on something else. Email is something that many other providers do well, and there's no particular benefit to having it built in (getting two bills is truly a "first world problem"). I'd rather Google focus on the hard problems which can't easily be implemented by third parties - spatial indexes, pull queue grouping, transactional task deleting, etc. These enable whole new solution domains. Think about the major new features that the GAE team has rolled out in the last year... the HRD, XG transactions, Backends, Exploding Index Repellant, Pull Queues, Memcache CAS, Deferred Tasks, Cursors, Async Datastore Operations... every time one of these features comes out I think "How did I ever write code without this?" That's what I want more of. Jeff -- 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.
