Moving The New York Times Games Platform to Google App Engine

Re:Moving The New York Times Games Platform to Google App En... by CharlesW on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @07:16PM (#15086060)

Totally. Also…

> AWS is too low level

It seems very strange to paint AWS with such a broad brush, considering that AWS has tons of services at various levels of abstraction (including high-level abstractions like Elastic Beanstalk and AWS Lambda).

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Re:Moving The New York Times Games Platform to Google App En... by obulpathi on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @07:24PM (#15086112)

Sorry to not add context. I was referring to the use case the author of article was talking about: running a website: You need to stitch: ELB / EC2 / Database / Caching / Service Splitting / Auth / Scaling / ... Where as on Google Cloud, App Engine covers most of the points.

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Re:Moving The New York Times Games Platform to Google App En... by tomcam on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @09:44PM (#15086970)

Jeez, you're taking a lot of hits. Thanks for the patient answers

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Re:Moving The New York Times Games Platform to Google App En... by obulpathi on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @11:06PM (#15087326)

Thanks for your kind comment!

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