Re:I think GCP is better than AWS – by Fernando Villalba
by fhoffa on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @10:10PM
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This is awesome, thanks for all the background info.
Now let me give you an example of App Engine deprecating stuff:
- In 2012 App Engine deprecated the "Conversion API".
- They notified this deprecation in August 2012, and they told users it would stop working only 3 months afterwards.
- You were affected by this deprecation.
- You created an alternative to it, that worked on Heroku.
Source: https://groups.google.com/g/google-appengine/c/-JJccGx5RRk/m...
Did I get this right?
You are awesome. We are just choosing to remember the past with different colored glasses.
Re:I think GCP is better than AWS – by Fernando Villalba
by latchkey on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @10:45PM
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Yea, they deprecated something. I even noted that the market is small for it in the thread. I built another solution in a short amount of time, and even gave it away because it really wasn't something people were using a lot of. It was a super niche product. That also wasn't even AppEngine, it was just a nice to have, for me, sub-service.
There was a point where people were upset about GCP and Google changed their whole deprecation policies to be more vocal and longer term about things.
I really don't understand your point. What's the big deal?
"We migrated"... meaning that over time, everyone is migrating from the concept of using GAE as a first choice, to using things like Run/Functions. Not that I actually physically took code for GAE and moved it to R/F. For example, my last project, I choose to use GCF, instead of GAE. The reason I went straight to GCF is because it is effectively what GAE has morphed into today. This isn't a slight on GAE at all.
Again, I have used GCP extensively since about 2009. By the way, much of what you use today was a result of things I did back when I co-founded the Jakarta Apache project, open sourced Tomcat from Sun, blah blah blah...