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justinblaton Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service

We're still working on rolling a few docs throughout the day. For example - here's the node.js lib:

https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-node#clo...

justinblaton Why Google App Engine Rocks: A Google Engineer’s Take

Of course we do :) We deprecated the original appengine console, and we've moved all of the UI over to the Cloud Developers console:

https://console.cloud.google.com/

It has all of the cloud stuff in one place. Should be a lot nicer to use too :)

justinblaton Google App Engine Silently Stopped Sending Email 5 Weeks Ago

Greetings folks! One of the App Engine PMs here. That couldn't be further from the truth - we absolutely want people to use App Engine. If you want to manage your own infrastructure, Google Compute Engine is great. If you want something that scales automatically, and requires less management - App Engine is a great option. We've actually made a ton of changes recently, specifically on our support for docker based runtimes, new docs, and new runtime support (like nodejs, ruby, python3, etc).

https://cloud.google.com/nodejs https://cloud.google.com/ruby https://cloud.google.com/python .... etc

If you have any questions at all about the service, feel free to ask me anything.

justinblaton Node.js on Google App Engine Goes Beta

Greetings folks, I'm the PM for Node.js on App Engine. If anyone has any questions, feel free to ask me anything!

justinblaton Node.js on Google App Engine Goes Beta

Apologies you had a bad experience. There's no doubt the original App Engine had some... quirks.

You may want to take a look at Managed VMs. All of the new runtimes are based on Docker images, are entirely extensible, and don't require the use of the original App Engine APIs:

https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/managed-vms/

You can use whatever Database or NPM modules you want.

justinblaton Node.js on Google App Engine Goes Beta

I think technically that command is still hidden lol. You can run it, it just doesn't show up in the docs. We'll be officially releasing that one in a few weeks.

justinblaton Node.js on Google App Engine Goes Beta

You can specify whatever version of Node.js you want to use in the engines section of your package.json:

https://cloud.google.com/nodejs/resources/runtime#engines

justinblaton Node.js on Google App Engine Goes Beta

What specifically are you looking to do?

justinblaton Node.js on Google App Engine Goes Beta

Of course there's an SDK! It's here: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcloud-node