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by primitivesuave 4473 days ago
In the end these are just eye-popping benchmarks. What really drives people to your platform is developer friendliness and the speed by which you can get started. Google App Engine has this, but there's not a lot of information floating around the media and blogosphere as there is for Heroku and DigitalOcean.

I use Google App Engine for auto scaling an API and it works brilliantly. Super easy to set up and develop on. But recently I started preferring DigitalOcean simply because there is a community that is constantly posting tutorials and answering questions. To me, that's more valuable than the distant prospect of handling 1M writes/second.
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Erwin 4473 days ago
FYI, the Digital Ocean tutorial writers get paid $50 to write them: https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/get-paid-to-write-...

Looks like a great way for DO to both build a sense community and also appear high in Google rankings when you search for something. I googled some Linux question earlier today, and ended up on a DO page -- refreshing their brand in my mind.

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jeremydw 4473 days ago
While this doesn't directly pertain to your comment, perhaps it's somewhat related to onboarding with GAE...

I've been developing on GAE since it was released in 2008 and recently became "Google Cloud Platform Certified".

I'm considering offering a "Google App Engine for Startups" class/workshop (at something like General Assembly). The class would primarily include details about the platform's architecture and best practices for building high-scalability apps (like, say, Snapchat) so your app can "scale without thinking twice." Do you think there'd be some interest in a class like this?

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jfim 4473 days ago
From organizing past events, it's much easier to just do it and have it flop (nobody's going to notice it if it does) than try looking if there's interest or not. Ask your target venue if you can do it, make sure it has some visibility (ie. make sure it's in the program), setup a slide deck or two and do it. Good luck!
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oamoruwa 4473 days ago
To the point about what would attract users to a platform, offering a developer friendly environment and quick ramp up time, I certainly agree.

The 1M writes/second would be a capability more specifically focused for users/developers interested in using already existing platforms such AWS's High Performance Computing platforms and the like.

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