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by throwaway713824 3088 days ago
I remember reading at least one case study of someone standing up an online poll related to a sporting event that got 100k's users over a few days on GAE, really impressive at the time. You can still do that of course, but now you're dealing with load balancers and instances, a lot more admin overhead. It is/was a total walled garden, but for scale and ease of use like that, it was really worth the sacrifice. I really don't understand why everyone wants to be wrangling containers/instances nowadays.