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What's next on the roadmap for cloud functions? Some things I'm curious about is work related to cold starts and future run times (specifically Ruby) but happy to hear about anything.

Is application hosting (heroku, app engine, elb) on the roadmap?

How does TabNine work for all languages? Curious about implementation details and use with dynamic languages. I would HAPPILY pay $29 if it works well for Ruby.

I'm not sure but I believe that's the number of employees they had when they were acquired. There's ~250 employees listed on LinkedIn.

How representative are the terms outlined in the example? 18.25% for 1.6M where the lead paid 1m for 6.25%? I've never raised money before so I don't know.

I wish every language would do this.

Thanks for the post Russell. Our SaaS application is running on Rails / Typpescript frontend. We're patiently waiting for App Engine to add Standard support for Ruby before we go all in on GCP. I would be most excited to see Cloud Source support Ruby. Hope your team will consider it.

This is pretty cool. What can we expect in terms of additional language support?

Would it be possible to write an adapter to use this with postgresql on the web?

For context, jamebuilds is the maintainer or contributor of many javascript libraries like Lerna, Babel, and Yarn. He recently tweeted [1] that he would go to war with Palantir for collaboration with ICE. He opened several issues with Palantir's blueprint which uses Lerna [2]. He then opened a PR to change Lerna's license with the MIT license (with persional exceptions) [3] where it was merged after the original author agreed since jamebuilds is one of the primary maintainers now. Palantir did respond in one of the issues [4] where they clarified they work with HSI and would be open to meeting in person but it did not seem to change jamebuild's opinion.

[1]: https://twitter.com/jamiebuilds/status/1034517589001613312

[2]: https://github.com/palantir/blueprint/issues/2870,

https://github.com/palantir/blueprint/issues/2875,

https://github.com/palantir/blueprint/issues/2876

[3]: https://github.com/lerna/lerna/pull/1616

[4]: https://github.com/palantir/blueprint/issues/2870#issuecomme...

Thank you for all your hard work! I'm so excited about thew new app engine. Pleaaase bring Ruby next :).

Based on some comments from Python 3 on GAE Standard [1], I think Cloud Task supersedes queue. DSL Authentication sounds cool though.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17717045

Last link doesn't work for me. Tried multiple devices and browsers. Just 404s. I didn't find the first two links very helpful.

Thanks! Unfortunately, there's a link to Cloud Tasks API on that page that 404s and there's not much else info on it. As far as I can tell, it's alpha. Maybe I can find the Google Next presentation on it.

Where can I find more information on Cloud Scheduler & Tasks? Having a hard time googling it :) and the links go to a sign up form.

Yes, there was a slack like chat. There was a lot of channels based on mentor group, category (AI, saas, etc), and many more.

We did the first batch of Startup School.

We had mandatory N to 1 meetings. Those weren't that useful for us (it felt like we were a bit further ahead than other companies) but a few companies got a lot of value out of it.

Our optional 1-1 were insanely useful. Our mentor was a yc alum saas cofounder. He was took notes and saw our homework every week. His perspective was priceless and there weren't many problems we were facing that he hadn't already seen. Like other people mentioned, you come with a problem and they help you understand how to tackle it.

App Engine is really awesome! There's a few caveats I would add if you're using it for Rails or Elixir which requires the Flex environment.

* No integration with Standard APIs

* Slow / build deploy times

* Minimum pricing of $40 per machine / month

Overall, I feel like the direction App Engine is headed makes it purely better than other PaaS services but if you're running a low traffic website that isn't standard environment (Java 7/8, Python 2.7, Node 8, PHP 5.5, Go 1.6/7/8/9), Heroku is probably still more economical and better developer ux.

I hope they add Ruby and Elixir to the standard environment. I don't think any other PaaS would compare.

Thanks for your response. I strongly echo the other comment here. This should be on your website. I'm ready to purchase now.

I care a lot about the expensive dress shirts I'm now buying. Could you speak a bit more to "BETTER FOR YOUR CLOTHING" aspect? I don't feel confident that your product is much better than the Costco detergent I'm already getting.

Flex feels like a lower level of abstraction. You provide a docker file and what you want your machines to look like (vcpu, ram, storage) and it handles everything else. Standard is much closer to Heroku with the added benefit of being able to call APIs for managed services. If you want control over your environment (including what dependencies are available), you want to use Flex. In every other case, I think Standard is the way to go.

Wow! Any chance we'll see Ruby in the standard environment?

I don't believe this is an issue. YC's stance is to always participate in their pro rata.

"We exercise YC’s pro rata investing rights in all follow-on priced financing rounds, beginning with a company’s first priced round. At post-money valuations equal to or below $300M, we exercise our rights in all companies where we have a formal pro rata right."

From: https://www.ycombinator.com/continuity/

I believe the signaling issues are companies which are admitted to YC Series A and those that are not.

Sorry for the confusion. Yes, I was asking how much you think companies who graduate form YC should raise (say seed) compared to companies who are graduating from YC Series A.

1. Will there be any additional investment in the A outside of YC Continuity?

2. How much do you think YC companies will raise post YC vs YC Series A?

I've never heard of Ruby Facets but it looks interesting. Just as a heads up, the api document links on http://rubyworks.github.io/facets/learn.html don't work.

Is it $25k per site? Suppose I want to ISP several buildings. Should I budget $25k per building? How far apart can be?

I know a small handful of founders on a personal level and none of them take modafinil or adderall.

> Reach out to us to let us know what kinds of managed database services you’d like us to offer next.

Hey Google friends,

I'm not ready to move over to GCloud but I'm interested in prototyping a few applications. Here's a few things on my wishlist:

* Wrapping the cli tool for common db tasks in the way heroku does (ex: heroku pg:push - push local database to production database, heroku pg:pull - pulls production database to local).

* Simpler integration of Cloud SQL with AppEngine flex. It's not a lot of work (https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/python/usin...) but it would be cool to build a flex environment / provision a sql database / setup connection strings in one swoop.

* While you're at it, better AppEngine flex introductory pricing ($40 / mo for 1 vcpu, 512 mb ram) :)

Not related to managed databases but hopefully helpful. TLDR Heroku but on GCloud.