What do you use it for? Why did you choose it? Are you happy with your decision?
by domrdy on 5/21/13, 9:34 AM
We used appengine at a major european car rental company I was working for back then. We deployed a one instance mirror/backup of our booking app which basically cost us nothing. In case our servers, which we kept inhouse, were somehow unreachable we would forward all traffic to appengine and scale up accordingly. After the issue was resolved we would use various mapreduce jobs to migrate new bookings, cancellations etc. back to our servers. The app was written in python with flask on top. To store data we used the NDB Api which was a blast to work with. Overall a really nice experience.
by sanatgersappa on 5/21/13, 8:17 AM
by factorialboy on 5/21/13, 5:38 AM
Tried it. High costs, technology lock-in burnt my fingers. Moved to open technologies and not "platforms".
by tagabek on 5/21/13, 2:47 AM
I used it in the past when I learned Python - I built small apps that were just for fun.
It's a powerful engine, and has a lot of nice features.
I'm pretty happy with starting there, because I moved on to Xcode afterwards.
by liuh on 5/25/13, 4:04 AM
I used Appengine to host a static website for free, a immigration law firm
http://www.cbulaw.com/. I built it with Django and exported all pages as static files.
by 27182818284 on 5/21/13, 4:54 AM
I gave it a try, but I found it too annoyingly restricting. I'd rather just roll my own linux servers since I grew up (I know I'm young) with Fedora Core 2.
by pvdm on 5/21/13, 2:32 AM
Gave it a try but gave up. Looking at compute engine.
by dolphenstein on 5/21/13, 2:39 AM
I use it. I like that I don't have to worry about scalability and administration is a breeze.
I'm happy with it! Been using it since 2009.
by aton on 5/21/13, 12:23 AM
Does the fact that no one has left any comment yet indicate that not many people here use app engine?
by argonaut on 5/21/13, 6:39 AM
Khan Academy uses it for their entire site.
by rman666 on 5/21/13, 12:45 AM
Does it support Ruby?