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Is Google App Engine under performing? I wonder why do they would need a fluff marketing piece like this.

I hope they're not in trouble or anything, I have been moving my project from VPS over to GCM for the past year now. I love it.

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I love using GAE as well, but I'll be damned if I can find a job using it. It is almost impossible. The few that exist are in the highest-cost locations in America.

In that sense I think it's a failure; it simply hasn't been widely adopted.

At my last job I pushed for using it, and the suggestion was shot down, on the basis that "If I left they'd never find another person who knows GAE."

Guess, it's about time there are more developers/devops who know GAE! Google have been quietly building a fantastic product line and when they start heavily marketing, there would be tons who would want to learn and switch.

We have avoided GAE at our startup simply because we depend upon google for so much already. we made an explicit choice to avoid putting all our eggs in that basket, and are completely happy with AWS.

Google was never big on Enterprise marketing materials in the past.

Now that things have changed (re-org Alphabet, new Cloud leadership), they seem to take marketing/sales (and hopefully support) more seriously (and with more traditional approach).

It's a good sign; they're maturing.

> I wonder why do they would need a fluff marketing piece like this.

Because, there is a huge gap between market perception and their product offering.

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