[latchkey]

Poor comment and poor guess.

My best friend Jeff started working on Objectify in 2009 after I convinced him to use GAE. I have built two businesses on it. One did $80m in revenue in the first year and I guarantee we couldn’t have done it without GAE.

Now give me back my downvote please.

[fhoffa]

Wait, you just said in a separate comment that you migrated away from App Engine.

You also just said that you used it very effectively back when it was a different thing.

I think we agree in many more ways than we disagree.

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38020604

[latchkey]

Ugh, now you're making me explain myself due to your poor understanding of what I was saying and taking different comments in different threads out of context.

"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. I've updated previous comment to hopefully clarify this for you.

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, brought Lucene under the umbrella, blah blah blah... I've been around the internet since 1991.

[fhoffa]

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.

[latchkey]

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?

[fhoffa]

You think we are disagreeing, meanwhile I just love how much I've learned (and confirmed) thanks to your replies. Thanks for sharing!