Hi, Torsten, Google App Engine was, I suspect, originally adopted by Python and Java developers in the early days, it was seen as a very cheap alternative as a Paas. Based around the no-sql datastore, it offered quite a few advantages to say the heavy-ish load of say a straight Django based server option. The whole Paas idea being to relinquish the substantial dev-ops requirements that often burdened smaller developers. Today it is a different beast, it's no longer a matter of the Standard environment and Java or Python. You have the Flex environment, extra lnagues, Go and PHP in the mix as well as numerous APIs and cloud facilities that can really help speed up development of any size projects. Developing restful APIs as micro-services for example, cloud storage, and many cloud based facilities are now part of the overall development ecosystem.
Today I don't think you should look at google-app-engine development just in terms of the core code base. It's part of an family of tools that I personally use most everyday. It still has it's issues, documentation for a a long while was in need of improvement but it's getting much better all the time. On the downside, the requirement to get to grips with the various components Google now offers can be quite time consuming and the original concept of getting rid of the burden of heavy dev-ops has since been somewhat retograde by the need to understand, use and monitor all the activities of a web site via the cloud console and other tools. To be fair though, this is more to do with the reality of designing web apps which are no longer small and simple. The web today is a complex beast, which many people underestimate when it comes to tooling up and development, but Google is getting much better as it matures and takes away many of the more painful and cumbersome burdens that modern web app development brings. I wholeheartedly recommend it. If you need some advice of any form give me a shout. On Monday, October 23, 2017 at 4:03:33 PM UTC+3, Torsten Därr wrote: > > Hi, I'm not a web developer but I've been running websites for many years > having them created by web development companies. I've been trying to find > a good company that is familiar with Google App Engine because I do believe > that the Google ecosystem is the right choice for my next sites and > projects. Can you give me any idea as to how I can find a web developing > company that has been using Google App Engine for a while successfully? > Many thanks, Torsten > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/697030d3-8067-4175-b3fc-9bdb3b0f2c19%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
