Everything About Google App Engine

2 min readJan 30, 2019

App Engine is one of my all-time favorite offering on Google Cloud Platform

Here I have everything that you need to know about App Engine

What is Google App Engine ?

Google App Engine is Google’s fully managed PAAS offering where developers can build and deploy highly scalable apps. You can scale your application from zero to planet-scale without having worry about managing infrastructure. App Engine lets you focus on code and everything else is provided by the platform.

Quick Introduction Video

What programming languages are supported on Google App Engine ?

1. GO
2. PHP
3. JAVA
4. Python
5. NodeJS
6. .NET
7. Ruby
8. Custom Runtime

Why Google App Engine ?

Fully managed service with zero ops ( no need to work at infrastructure level at all )
Deploy at Google Scale
All popular languages support
Lots of built-in features such as scaling up/down, logging, monitoring, diagnostics etc.
Building quickly and time to market is short
Pay only for what you use

Some cool features of App Engine

Scale downs to zero when no traffic/requests (Lots of $$$ saving)
Focus on writing the code, rest everything is taken care
Application version deployment, you can rollback to the previous version within seconds
Traffic Splitting: Split your traffic between two different versions. This helps to do A/B testing and incremental feature rollout

What's Best to run on App Engine ?

Web Applications
Mobile Backends
Internal IT Apps
IoT
FrontEnd and Backend Workload

What I should not run on App Engine ?

Stateful storage
Genomics
Media Rendering
Financial Data Analytics
VM images

How does pricing works ?

It’s simple. Pay for what you use. There are different size instances available, you can choose based on your requirement and will be charged accordingly.