Google App Engine Room for Improvement

OmkarPatil - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Executive Officer at Nyx CodeCraft

The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required.

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Marcos_Santos - PeerSpot reviewer
Pre-Sales Solution Architect Manager at Qi Network

Some features of runtime don't work well in App Engine. Sometimes we must tune it ourselves or ask Google’s team to improve it. It is the most important thing. Our clients always complain about it.

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BO
Director- Technical Services at Soft Alliance

The main thing that could be improved is the pricing. It could be cheaper, especially for those in Africa where we have a high exchange rate.

I think there's still a lot that can be done with Google Meet and the video conferencing part of it. It could be more dynamic in terms of what can be done with it.

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Google App Engine
March 2024
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RN
Principal Technical Architect at NTT Security

The support for the Indian region is not as good as compared to the support that is offered to the regions in Europe. My company faces a lot of problems with the support team, especially when Google's technical team is not able to help us immediately when we are stuck with something related to the tool. The support of the product is an area where improvements are required.

Google App Engine is a good product, and its support needs to be improved as it is a new technology that few people know about. There is a need to spread some awareness about the product while also ensuring that some online forums related to the product need to be updated with a lot of documentation related to the tool.

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Darasimi Ajewole - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at Formplus

The documentation is an area that could definitely be improved. Another area of improvement would be the community which is poor and Google could do a lot better on that front. 

I know that my team members who have been working with the solution for just a year or two find the architecture to be quite difficult. 

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PS
Programma en project manager at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

I would like a simpler deployment tool on laptops. It is a bit complicated at the moment. We know how to do it, but it could be easier to deploy it on laptops.

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FI
Teaching Assistant at a government with 201-500 employees

Everything so far has gone smoothly, I've never had a struggle with the solution. 

In terms of product improvement, when it comes to billing, I think they should include something that would give the client or user an indication of what's happening so they can be aware of how pricing is being managed. 

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it_user195504 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Programmer at a non-profit with 201-500 employees

The programming interface is not easy, but I can't talk deeply about it, as I have used a framework which hid the API.

I can't detail anything about GAE API, as I didn't use it. Nevertheless, I could have a look at it. I could especially look at what is related to its DataStore database, in terms of its keys or its ancestors.

It seems to be a totally different approach, compared to traditional SQL databases. The Web2py framework hides this complexity.

I searched for some information about how to use GAE API, both on official
docs, forums or books. The conclusion I took after these searches was this
API was not easy to use. And this reality was one of the reason why I
started searching for a framework that could hide GAE API. I have to
recognize this impression could be caused because of my previous work with
SQL related API -note that GAE is build upon a NoSQL database.


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OT
CEO/Programmer at Tech Elight

It would be helpful if they could improve the user interface. It could use some modifications.

There needs to be more directions in terms of how to use the solution.

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JP
Personal docente at U.E.N Aime Bonpland

Data consumption of the device could be improved.

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it_user3636 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Consultant/VP of Technology
Need a better documentation and tech support. View full review »
AE
IT Manager Assistant at Aras

I am limited to sending a photo to five people. I want to be able to send a photo to many people, not just five.

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RS
DirectorManaging Partner at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The only concern is that there is a number of the offerings which are built on their own proprietary technologies. With some of the offerings in Google Cloud, it's difficult to have a path to migrate to other cloud providers.

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it_user1158 - PeerSpot reviewer
Developer at a tech company with 51-200 employees
- Developers have read-only access to the filesystem on the Google App Engine. - GAE is not suitable for CPU intensive calculations. - You cannot produce a social graph using Google app engine. - Once you think of migrating out of the AppEngine world, you'll face a lot of problems. For example, having to change your code to use your own datastore, task queues, and other services. If your application is fairly large, this will be a very difficult process. - Since the backend is completely manage by Google, you don't have control over the environment your application runs in. - Apart from the free space and to build some "Hobby" websites, Google App Engine is not the place java guys should look in as Java is quite heavy on memory front. View full review »
it_user981 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager of Development at a tech company with 51-200 employees
No filesystem access More expensive than the alternate options if a product/service has a lot of users Language support limited to Java and Python Database options limited to MySQL and Google data store View full review »
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Google App Engine
March 2024
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