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Wesley Chun (@Wescpy) @wescpy

Google App Engine: Serverless App-Hosting With Autoscaling Properties

Google App Engine (GAE) is a cloud-based platform for building web apps with autoscaling properties. It supports various languages & has migration options from Gen1 to Gen2.

TL;DR:

If you're looking to put code online today, you have many options, with a VM or Kubernetes as the best choice for some. Others with less code may consider (AWS) Lambda. There are also options where developers don't have to consider traditional servers... these are known as serverless (compute) platforms. Google Cloud (GCP) offers several serverless options, and while Google (and I) will encourage developers to go straight to Cloud Run, it would be remiss not to start the conversation with their "OG" serverless platform, App Engine, as it still does a few things that Cloud Run can't or...