This is actually a great improvement. I've developed a couple of applications on GAE, and it was very difficult to do anything non-trivial without generating "High CPU" warnings. I think once they get task scheduling in (part of their recent road map), the platform will become a lot more viable.
Interesting I wonder what kind of things people will create with it.
Those are welcome changes indeed!
does anyone feel like the App Engine isn't even trying to compete with AWS? They are just chugging along at their own pace, while AWS is leaving them in the dust
I think they aren't competing because they are doing different things. App Engine is a lot more narrowly focused.
Shouldn't being more narrowly focused make them more efficient?