Solid solution, maybe not as great as the competition
August 02, 2018
Solid solution, maybe not as great as the competition
Score 7 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Google App Engine
We developed and deployed a basic app via Google App Engine in order to evaluate their serverless architecture. Development and deployment were mostly pain free, and we were able to quickly go live with a scalable solution where we didn't have to worry about infrastructure, using the language of our choice (many are supported).
- Supports all popular languages (and you can even bring your own language runtime)
- Built-in automatic scaling is great
- Lags behind competing platforms (Azure, AWS) in terms of features
- Less documentation, examples, etc. as compared to competitors' platforms
- Easy enough to get up and running; speedy prototyping and deployment which saved us time and money
- Automatic scaling meant for less issues after going live
I think that Microsoft and Amazon are simply investing more in their offerings, and there are a bunch of cool PaaS solutions out there as well. Google App Engine is solid, and is probably the right choice for some projects. But ultimately one should evaluate each platform based on their specific project's needs.