Spotify moves its back end to Google Cloud

Re:Spotify moves its back end to Google Cloud by kyrra on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @04:06PM (#11162331)

Anecdotal: AppEngine deprecated their Master/Slave datastore[0] in April 2012, and it was actually shutdown on July 6, 2015. So that's 3+ years to move to newer tech.

[0] http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2012/04/masterslave-data...

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Re:Spotify moves its back end to Google Cloud by stickfigure on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @04:22PM (#11162442)

Also worth noting that Google built an automated tool to handle the M/S to HRD datastore migration for you. It was remarkably painless.

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Re:Spotify moves its back end to Google Cloud by jontro on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @05:26PM (#11162875)

I really struggled around 12 months ago. Lots of weird errors and it took down the service unexpectedly when trying to stage it.

Really made me regret going with app engine a few years ago.

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Re:Spotify moves its back end to Google Cloud by QuercusMax on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @04:47PM (#11162618)

Painless eventually; the first versions didn't work at all, at least on the project I was involved with. Fortunately by the time you had to switch, it worked very well.

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Re:Spotify moves its back end to Google Cloud by ariwilson on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @04:57PM (#11162676)

Being first to migrate to the hot new infrastructure has never worked out for me in any project.

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Re:Spotify moves its back end to Google Cloud by TorKlingberg on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @05:15PM (#11162801)

I was mildly annoyed that I had to spend an afternoon "migrating" my app from the M/S datastore, even though I never used it in the first place.

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