I really like idea of Go on AppEngine (blog.golang.org/appengine-go111), now I just need to figure out a project idea to try it out...
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Chrome CI infrastructure has been on AppEngine (handling over 12000 workers) since 2013 and it works great.
Not having to bother with stateful servers, secure by default, trivially run multiple server versions concurrently, growing DB to tens of TB without thinking about it.
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Nice to know, thanks for sharing! I’ve always loved idea of AppEngine and was surprised to see IaaS-style approaches take off more first. Who really *wants* to run servers?
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AppEngine has nice APIs and makes scaling incredibly easy but you can end up getting extremely locked into it. The pricing also gets a bit ridiculous once the free quotas are used up. It's 10x more expensive than VMs in the best case and easily 100x+ more with heavy db usage.