[drakaal]

This is the reason that our site. http://plexisearch.com uses Google App Engine.

Google has allowed us to run "Code" rather than worry about infrastructure. Because it is an "Engine" we don't have to configure much, and the autoscaling is fantastic.

Google Edge Cache means we get Better than CDN performance on static assets.

There are limitation to AppEngine, but because we can also leverage virtual servers we can create a hybrid environments that let us do things AppEngine won't like install C Libraries, or run Windows (we aren't doing that, but we could).

We have been very happy with Google App Engine and since we are running millions of pages a day through our Natural Language Engine it has worked out really well for us.

-Brandon Wirtz CTO Stremor.com

[bgentry]

AFAICT this article is talking strictly about Google Compute Engine and its GCLB load balancer product, not about App Engine.

[drakaal]

How do you think App Engine works? AppEngine runs on the same hardware and the same process described as a how to is nearly identical to what is obfuscated and provided to AppEngine users via a GUI.