Great solution and high traffic product

What are the best aspects of this product?

GAE provides simple configuration for autoscaling and easy integration with mobile app to the REST API servers. There is minimal administration required. I can easily execute asynchronous tasks and I don’t need to handle queues. The push queue and the platform take care of execution along with scaling up when needed. I use Mem-cached for fast data access.

What aspects are problematic or could work better?

Limitations when using the Appengine with JAVA like reflection and threading, it is difficult to include other 3rd party libraries and to debug into local environment by using Datastore option. Also, the price of datastore affects the coding style when trying to optimize on cost.

What specific problems in your company were solved by this product?

We are able to perform quick deployments, thus, we save money of an administration department. When we started to grow the PaaS doesn’t met our needs so we started to use the IaaS hosting solution. It takes care of vendor lock-in. You can start with a low-cost solution and then move to IaaS solution.

Are you a current user of this product?

Yes