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    Codeanywhere

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ACodeanywhere is a Cloud IDE with the features of a Desktop IDE. Codeanywhere enables users to set up a workflow in any way desired. The features needed for coding tasks are built into Codeanywhere, including support for debugging, syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, snippets, code refactoring, and embedded Git. Languages included are popular programming ones such as C, C#, C++, CSS, HTTP, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, SQL.

    $6

    per month 1 container

    Google App Engine

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AGoogle App Engine is Google Cloud's platform-as-a-service offering. It features pay-per-use pricing and support for a broad array of programming languages.

    $0.05

    Per Hour Per Instance

    Pricing
    CodeanywhereGoogle App Engine
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $6
    per month
    Standard
    $15
    per month
    Premium
    $40
    per month
    Starting Price
    $0.05
    Per Hour Per Instance
    Max Price
    $0.30
    Per Hour Per Instance
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CodeanywhereGoogle App Engine
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    CodeanywhereGoogle App Engine
    Considered Both Products
    Codeanywhere
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    Google
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    Would buy again
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    92%
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
    CodeanywhereGoogle App Engine
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Codeanywhere and Google App Engine
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    Ratings
    Google App Engine
    9.5
    32 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings9.018 Ratings
    Scalability00 Ratings10.032 Ratings
    Platform management overhead00 Ratings9.032 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability00 Ratings8.024 Ratings
    Platform access control00 Ratings10.031 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration00 Ratings10.028 Ratings
    Development environment creation00 Ratings10.029 Ratings
    Development environment replication00 Ratings10.028 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings9.028 Ratings
    Issue recovery00 Ratings9.026 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings10.029 Ratings
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    Score9.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CodeanywhereGoogle App Engine
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (36 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
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    8.3
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
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    10.0
    (8 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    10.0
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    Support Rating
    -
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    8.4
    (12 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    CodeanywhereGoogle App Engine
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Codeanywhere
    If you're looking for a VS Code-like online environment with containers to spin up a dev environment or execute code and scripts it is a good fit. The environments are very customizable, and, all said and done, the price is fair. If you're looking for a remote code editor that allows you to connect via SFTP/SSH and edit the remote files, it isn't quite as seamless as it used to be. I still haven't found any all-cloud alternative, but it could be better.
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    Google
    App Engine is such a good resource for our team both internally and externally. You have complete control over your app, how it runs, when it runs, and more while Google handles the back-end, scaling, orchestration, and so on. If you are serving a tool, system, or web page, it's perfect. If you are serving something back-end, like an automation or ETL workflow, you should be a little considerate or careful with how you are structuring that job. For instance, the Standard environment in Google App Engine will present you with a resource limit for your server calls. If your operations are known to take longer than, say, 10 minutes or so, you may be better off moving to the Flexible environment (which may be a little more expensive but certainly a little more powerful and a little less limited) or even moving that workflow to something like Google Compute Engine or another managed service.
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    Pros
    Codeanywhere
    • Run development containers with backend and frontend access.
    • Allow for multiple users to collaborate and share containers and connections.
    • Manage multiple connections to different servers.
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    Google
    • Quick to develop, quick to deploy. You can be up and running on Google App Engine in no time.
    • Flexible. We use Java for some services and Node.js for others.
    • Great security features. We have been consistently impressed with the security and authentication features of Google App Engine.
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    Cons
    Codeanywhere
    • Since some updates a couple of years ago, using Codeanywhere as a remote code editor rather than a container-based development environment has been more cumbersome and difficult.
    • The modular nature of connections and containers seems like a good idea, but they don't always work properly.
    • It's difficult sometimes to share a connection or container together with a collaborator.
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    Google
    • There is a slight learning curve to getting used to code on Google App Engine.
    • Google Cloud Datastore is Google's NoSQL database in the cloud that your applications can use. NoSQL databases, by design, cannot give handle complex queries on the data. This means that sometimes you need to think carefully about your data structures - so that you can get the results you need in your code.
    • Setting up billing is a little annoying. It does not seem to save billing information to your account so you can re-use the same information across different Cloud projects. Each project requires you to re-enter all your billing information (if required)
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Codeanywhere
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    App Engine is a solid choice for deployments to Google Cloud Platform that do not want to move entirely to a Kubernetes-based container architecture using a different Google product. For rapid prototyping of new applications and fairly straightforward web application deployments, we'll continue to leverage the capabilities that App Engine affords us.
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    Usability
    Codeanywhere
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    I had to revisit the UI after a year of just setting up and forgetting. The UI got some improvements but the amount of navigation we have to go through to setup a new app has increased but also got easier to setup. Gemini now is integrated and make getting answers faster
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    Support Rating
    Codeanywhere
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    Good amount of documentation available for Google App Engine and in general there is large developer community around Google App Engine and other products it interacts with. Lastly, Google support is great in general. No issues so far with them.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Codeanywhere
    I've used CodeTasty, which is much more of a straight remote code editor, but their dev team is entirely unresponsive, and I became uncomfortable storing credentials with them, so I pulled everything from them and went back to Codeanywhere. VS code is similar but not fully online. While I know that they've released a fully online version, I haven't had the time or wherewith-all to make it work in the capacity I need. Codeanywhere is still the best solution I've found.
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    Google
    We were on another much smaller cloud provider and decided to make the switch for several reasons - stability, breadth of services, and security. In reviewing options, GCP provided the best mixtures of meeting our needs while also balancing the overall cost of the service as compared to the other major players in Azure and AWS.
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    Return on Investment
    Codeanywhere
    • Helped me make mission critical edits remotely and on-the-fly.
    • Spent a bit of time figuring out the change in user interfaces.
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    Google
    • Effective employee adoption through ease of use.
    • Effective integration to other java based frameworks.
    • Time to market is very quick. Build, test, deploy and use.
    • The GAE Whitelist for java is an important resource to know what works and what does not. So use it. It would also be nice for Google to expand on items that are allowed on GAE platform.
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