57 engineers on Hacker News describe using Google App Engine first-hand: 10 endorse it, 9 regret it, 13 are mixed.
“could no longer do code deploys on internal WebApps that were on old Python 2/3 images.”
regret · production · warmedcookie · 2025-04-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We also run apps on App Engine when we can and there all you need to do is add a `cron.yaml`”
endorse · production · thraxil · 2022-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Some of my us-east4 App Engine instances (in multiple projects, some in production) went down in the past week.”
regret · production · kennethkeim · 2022-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run most of our app on Google App Engine explicitly to avoid devops work. However, ... was just too expensive on GAE.”
mixed · production · stickfigure · 2022-08-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I started out with Iaas namely Google App Engine and we suffered a ton with huge bills especially from our managed db instance.”
regret · production · tr33house · 2022-07-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I wont use this for the simple reason that I bought into the Google Appengine stack in the past and it really bit me”
regret · production · alasdair_ · 2020-01-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“App Engine first gen to second gen changes (which are for the better, but still a big deal)”
mixed · production · dangoor · 2019-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We migrated a web application over to GAE last month. It's been rock solid and this is the first issue we've had.”
endorse · production · stanmancan · 2018-07-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've also used it to run some sites with medium traffic. ... Their documentation is also extremely poor ... At the end of the day, I would still recommend it.”
mixed · production · NearAP · 2017-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Our startup happened to get in on Appengine early on, and we went with it for exactly the reasons he puts forward.”
endorse · production · foxylad · 2017-07-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using GAE since 2010 but I'm a little uncomfortable continuing to writing new apps in Python 2.7 when they have a clear end of life date set now.”
mixed · production · 6 yr · jay_kyburz · 2016-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we moved some of our services from standard GAE to flex GAE and saw a HUGE reduction in costs.”
endorse · production · alooPotato · 2016-08-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I worked for one of the largest App Engine deployments for startups. We were Python, Java, and Go and all were terrible.”
regret · production · optionalparens · 2015-11-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Go on App Engine for the past 6 months for a weekend project.”
endorse · personal · 0.5 yr · melling · 2015-07-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run 45 server instances and handle ~20 requests per second on AppEngine. Appengine is not perfect but we spend the majority of our time focused on delivering business logic”
endorse · production · dontmindifido · 2014-07-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I seem to run into an issue with App Engine every few months... On balance, I don't regret picking GAE because I think the effort saved outweighs the problems.”
mixed · production · jfoster · 2013-10-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I COMPLETELY regret using App Engine and building a business based on Google technologies.”
regret · production · 2 yr · jwheeler79 · 2013-07-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We (Khan Academy) have a lot riding on App Engine, and they are supportive when we run into issues with the platform.”
endorse · production · dylanvee · 2013-02-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My company was using AppEngine to host our product but we switched over to AWS (python, nginx/tornado, mongo) last year because of similar problems.”
regret · production · wrath · 2012-08-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Development is x1000 harder, but then everything Just Works.”
mixed · production · icoloma · 2012-06-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I wish we could use Django's autoescape filter but App Engine's SDK ships with just 0.96 by default.”
regret · production · dannyr · 2011-03-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using AppEngine for almost a year. It's definitely come a long way, but it does still have some serious shortcomings.”
mixed · personal · 1 yr · marcc · 2010-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Just wanted to say that we're happy with GAE too. We use GAE for small, fast projects, like our main "brochure-ware" website.”
endorse · production · andrewljohnson · 2010-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“our startup (realtimefarms.com) also runs on GAE (python though), and we use the blob store image serving to great benefit”
endorse · production · krosaen · 2010-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We love AppEngine for many of the reasons which he gives. ... My biggest issue with AppEngine is that there's no full-text index functionality”
mixed · production · wrath · 2010-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“AppEngine now no longer gives me many problems.”
mixed · personal · mark_l_watson · 2010-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“all the rules GAE imposes can be a pain in the arse a lot of the time I really really love them”
mixed · personal · Swizec · 2010-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The local server behaves remarkably the same as the deployed server, it's quite rare I find a situation where something behaves differently in production.”
mixed · production · krosaen · 2010-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have completely fallen in love with AppEngine since the beginning of this year.”
mixed · personal · 0.8 yr · nikcub · 2010-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using App Engine+Python exclusively for side projects since its release and never run into these problems.”
endorse · personal · 2 yr · f7u12 · 2010-10-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we've have had pretty poor performance getting data out of their datastore. We only have a couple operations apps running on it”
regret · production · floodfx · 2010-07-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“not having to worry about database servers and scalability is a major advantage”
mixed · production · wrath · 2010-03-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This isn't a slight on GAE at all. ... what GAE has morphed into today.”
neutral · production · latchkey · 2023-10-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we were using a combination of Retool, Google Cloud Scheduler, Mode Analytics, and a few small Google App Engine apps”
neutral · production · Nimsical · 2022-08-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We have a bunch of services running on App Engine NodeJS Flexible version.”
neutral · production · hn_throwaway_99 · 2021-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We migrated from Appengine Standard to GKE.”
neutral · production · alooPotato · 2021-09-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run two independent compute clusters on different managed infrastructure products (GKE and GAE)”
neutral · production · tompic823 · 2020-10-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The code you see really does run in production for App Engine and Cloud Run.”
neutral · production · prattmic · 2019-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've used it a little bit for a Google App Engine app.”
neutral · personal · Nextgrid · 2019-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I wrote the internal web site (built on a pre-release prototype of AppEngine!) that aggregated these jokes”
neutral · production · kentonv · 2018-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we moved to App Engine so it's still "kinda serverless"”
neutral · production · Nialna · 2018-09-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My company's been using it in production for a while now.”
neutral · production · spyspy · 2017-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use a google app engine/firebase/plotly so we look a bit different to the traditional style”
neutral · production · lee101 · 2017-11-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've had a product deployed on App Engine six years ago”
neutral · production · saurik · 2016-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“While I use some Google products (AppEngine, GCP, Play movies+music)”
neutral · personal · mark_l_watson · 2016-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Many services (including App Engine Flexible Environments) are still in beta, meaning no SLA, and they recommend against using them in prod.”
neutral · production · brechin · 2016-08-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Do you know of a way to do this with App Engine?”
neutral · personal · wlindner · 2013-05-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using MongoDB to start with for quite a while (and used AppEngine before that)”
neutral · personal · veesahni · 2012-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've kept it high while we wait for Google App Engine to announce their pricing for the text search feature we use.”
neutral · production · shutton · 2012-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm currently building using Django/jQuery/Bootstrap. My last project was GAE.”
neutral · production · Ensorceled · 2012-10-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“A library to push logs to bigquery if you're using appengine”
neutral · production · alooPotato · 2012-08-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“by the time you've hacked in all of your needs along with GAE's your begin to wonder why you ever started with.”
neutral · production · lyddonb · 2011-11-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“reported to the web application running on Google App Engine.”
neutral · production · dem · 2011-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I ran out of patience and moved my Ruby code to the Google App Engine.”
neutral · production · stephth · 2010-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Using a minimalist framework is a pretty good match for app engine since other frameworks might assume something about the environment”
neutral · production · krosaen · 2010-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Our app feels a lot snappier after this latest bit of datastore maintenance.”
neutral · production · mmastrac · 2010-11-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?