Hi, I would echo a lot of what Karl said.
I would like to see more examples of complex usage of GAE and or managed VMs. These are the kind of usages that more advanced developers might want. Here are a few examples of things that I have figured out or want: - CI/CD set up, with dev/staging environments and one button deployments to production. It was a pretty long process of trial and error to achieve this. - a single page app with separate the web front end and the backend (endpoints) modules. This was also tricky since endpoints live behind /_ah which can't be routed away from the default application. I think separating these out and their build processes is healthy separation of concerns. - integrating gulp build processes into GAE dev servers/build processes. In my case I'm using gradle app engine plugin. - "ismorphic" javascript app, with server side rendering via something like react (I assume this would be a managed VM running node js) that speaks to endpoints, from both client side and the node js layer. Also I agree that more transparency on the roadmap/discussions on direction would be really useful. For example the lack of java 8 on GAE is a concern of mine - https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9537 . There isn't any communication as to what the status of this is (note: AWS beanstalk supports java 8). I love the minimal configuration/maintenance of the GAE sandbox, but I need to know if a shift to managed VMs is the longer term direction for java support. It is not clear when starting a new java project if I should bet on GAE java sandbox being supported in the long term or just go with java 8 on a managed VM. Other than this, I have found GAE/GCP to be fantastic and I am really happy with the different tools and quality of the libraries provided. On Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 3:37:31 AM UTC+10, Katie Ball (Google Cloud Support) wrote: > > Hi, > > My name is Katie, and I am on the Google Cloud Platform technical support > <http://cloud.google.com/support> team. > > This message is to Google Cloud Platform community members, especially if > you are newer to GCP. I would like to know what our team can do to help you > have a better and more enjoyable experience during the first days on GCP. > > Did you need technical support? If so, I’d like to hear all about it. > > I’d also like to know: > > - > > What did you find most difficult about the first-time user experience? > - > > Where did you get stuck? > > > Please reply to the group with your answers or any ideas you have on how > the technical support team can help new customers get familiar with GCP. > > And as a thank you for the great ideas, we will be giving away support > coupons worth $450 (equivalent to 3 months of silver support) to 5 lucky > community members who post a response. Please make sure to reply before > April 22nd. > > Thanks for your insights, and cloud on! > > Katie > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/fb152eab-9868-4ad1-acc6-27933b26129e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
