Heroku is no longer the hobbyist's friend

Re:Heroku is no longer the hobbyist's friend by jonwayne on Monday October 19, 2015 @05:03PM (#10415729)

Absolutely not. You can use Cloud Datastore, or you can connect to any database that can communicate over sockets or http, including Cloud SQL. Of note is that Datastore has a free tier, Cloud SQL does not, and Socket usage can incur (some) cost when communicating with other databases.

I've seen many Python apps that connect to a free MongoDB instance hosted on Mongolab.

(also worth noting that Node.js support for App Engine is currently in beta.)

(disclaimer: I work for Google on Cloud Platform)

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Re:Heroku is no longer the hobbyist's friend by jay_kyburz on Monday October 19, 2015 @06:53PM (#10416337)

> also worth noting that Node.js support for App Engine is currently in beta.

Is this public? I have been waiting to hear this for ages! Great News.

I am planning a switch to node simply so I can run the same code on the front and back end. I was not looking forward to learning how to administer a server.

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Re:Heroku is no longer the hobbyist's friend by jonwayne on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @02:21PM (#10420821)

Check out https://cloud.google.com/nodejs

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Re:Heroku is no longer the hobbyist's friend by jay_kyburz on Monday October 19, 2015 @06:57PM (#10416363)

Oh, do you mean as a managed VM?

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Re:Heroku is no longer the hobbyist's friend by jonwayne on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @02:22PM (#10420823)

Yes.

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Re:Heroku is no longer the hobbyist's friend by pickle27 on Monday October 19, 2015 @05:33PM (#10415943)

cool I didn't know that - thanks for the info!

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