[google-appengine] Re: Architecture advice for Google Cloud Platform website solution

Thanks all for your replies. It is looking like the Cloud DataStore is the way to go. I think the generation of the PDF is going to be the trickiest part so I will concentrate on that part first. From my initial investigations i'll need to think about the best library to generate the PDF in

[google-appengine] Re: Architecture advice for Google Cloud Platform website solution

Hello John, this is a great post. Don't be too concerned about the "rusty" bit or first cloud project. There are many new things to learn, typically things that will make your life easier, but you will find a lot of your experience useful, too. I have tried to read a fair bit about GPC but

[google-appengine] Re: Architecture advice for Google Cloud Platform website solution

Hello John, You may consider following a detailed tutorial and sample application in Go, offered as "Creating a Guestbook Application " in the standard environment documentation. A great part of your

[google-appengine] Re: Architecture advice for Google Cloud Platform website solution

Hello, Some partial answers to your questions: This sounds like a small app which can run solely on App Engine and its related services. You will only pay for hours of actual usage + storage. I recommend you use the Cloud Datastore as your database, which is easy to use and integrate from