Google App Engine Pricing Angers Developers, Kills PlusFeed
Here's my complaint:<p>I, and many others, spent a lot of time figuring out how to write apps that do it the "app engine way":<p><pre><code>  * Fast completes (30 second timeout)
  * Offloading to task queues when you cant
  * Channels
  * Blobstore two-phase upload urls
  * Mail eccentricities
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We did so, because we believe Google when they told us <i>If you write your apps in this really weird way then we will be able to give you scale and cost benefits that you wont be able to get elsewhere</i><p>We believed them, because it seemed reasonable. We laughed at those who complained that django would hit the 30-second limit: "Its not a general hosting! Figure out the App Engine way!" And we educated on how to do it right, and many were happy.<p>Well, it turns out that it <i>is</i> general purpose hosting, with all of the costs, and yet also with all of the (once rational, now bullshit) idiosyncrasies.<p>---<p>But that's not the biggest complaint. The biggest complaint is that when my friends and peers objected to App Engine, its strange requirements and its potential lock in, <i>they were right and I am a fucking naive idiot</i>. And I <i>really</i> don't like to be proven a naive idiot. I put my faith in Google's <i>engineers</i> and they have <i>utterly destroyed my credibility</i>. THIS more than anything is the <i>cost</i> to me.