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Re:Ask HN: Who uses Google App Engine by domrdy on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @05:34AM (#5742650)
We used appengine at a major european car rental company I was working for back then. We deployed a one instance mirror/backup of our booking app which basically cost us nothing. In case our servers, which we kept inhouse, were somehow unreachable we would forward all traffic to appengine and scale up accordingly. After the issue was resolved we would use various mapreduce jobs to migrate new bookings, cancellations etc. back to our servers. The app was written in python with flask on top. To store data we used the NDB Api which was a blast to work with. Overall a really nice experience.
Re:Ask HN: Who uses Google App Engine by sanatgersappa on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @04:17AM (#5742439)
You can find a list here - https://cloud.google.com/customers/
Re:Ask HN: Who uses Google App Engine by factorialboy on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @01:38AM (#5742073)
Tried it. High costs, technology lock-in burnt my fingers. Moved to open technologies and not "platforms".
Re:Ask HN: Who uses Google App Engine by tagabek on Monday May 20, 2013 @10:47PM (#5741616)
I used it in the past when I learned Python - I built small apps that were just for fun.

It's a powerful engine, and has a lot of nice features.

I'm pretty happy with starting there, because I moved on to Xcode afterwards.

Re:Ask HN: Who uses Google App Engine by liuh on Saturday May 25, 2013 @12:04AM (#5766307)
I used Appengine to host a static website for free, a immigration law firm http://www.cbulaw.com/. I built it with Django and exported all pages as static files.
Re:Ask HN: Who uses Google App Engine by 27182818284 on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @12:54AM (#5741973)
I gave it a try, but I found it too annoyingly restricting. I'd rather just roll my own linux servers since I grew up (I know I'm young) with Fedora Core 2.
Re:Ask HN: Who uses Google App Engine by pvdm on Monday May 20, 2013 @10:32PM (#5741565)
Gave it a try but gave up. Looking at compute engine.
Re:Ask HN: Who uses Google App Engine by dolphenstein on Monday May 20, 2013 @10:39PM (#5741591)
I use it. I like that I don't have to worry about scalability and administration is a breeze. I'm happy with it! Been using it since 2009.
Re:Ask HN: Who uses Google App Engine by aton on Monday May 20, 2013 @08:23PM (#5741140)
Does the fact that no one has left any comment yet indicate that not many people here use app engine?
Re:Ask HN: Who uses Google App Engine by argonaut on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @02:39AM (#5742209)
Khan Academy uses it for their entire site.
Re:Ask HN: Who uses Google App Engine by rman666 on Monday May 20, 2013 @08:45PM (#5741217)
Does it support Ruby?
Re:Ask HN: Who uses Google App Engine by dragonwriter on Wednesday May 22, 2013 @06:25PM (#5754193)
Not directly, but I understand that JRuby can be used on the Java runtime.
Re:Ask HN: Who uses Google App Engine by factorialboy on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @01:38AM (#5742074)
Python, Java, Go-lang and now apparently PHP.