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What Is App Engine? The Ins And Outs Of This Google Platform

What Is App Engine? The Ins And Outs Of This Google Platform
What is Google App Engine

When selecting the right cloud platform for your business, it’s essential to ensure the success of your web application.

Not only do they ensure that your app can handle the traffic and demands placed upon it, but they can also offer a wide variety of features and support that can make your life as a developer much easier. However, with so many options available, it can be challenging to figure out which is the right fit for your business.

One option that you may not have considered is App Engine. This Google-run platform offers a variety of benefits for both developers and businesses, making it worth taking a closer look at.

In this article, we’ll explore what App Engine is, its features, and some of the pros and cons to help you determine if it’s the right solution for your web application needs.


What is AWS Elastic Beanstalk? 

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a web service offered by Amazon Web Services. It simplifies the process of deploying and managing applications in the cloud. If you’re unfamiliar with AWS or wonder how it can benefit your business, read on for a crash course in all things Elastic Beanstalk.

In this blog post, we will give you an overview of what Elastic Beanstalk is and discuss some of its advantages and features. We will also talk about pricing and conclude with a few thoughts on whether or not you should consider using Elastic Beanstalk for your next cloud-based project.


Back4App vs Heroku Comparison

This article will examine the similarities and differences between Back4App and Heroku. It will summarize both platforms and explore the core features and pricing models.


Deploying a Flask app on Heroku

During the last years Python became one of the most used programming languages. Its applications cover many fields like artificial intelligence, web services, data science, and many more. Particularly, in here, we are interested in developing a RESTful API. In order to do this, we use Flask, a python framework that makes easy to develop any kind of web service based on the HTTP protocol.


Postgres Database on Heroku

Postgres Heroku is a product of Heroku that comes under its ‘Heroku Data Services’ category. It is a fully managed SQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) that has helped developers run and administer their Postgres databases in the cloud for over a decade.

Indeed, Postgres Heroku is offering this DBaaS service with free-tier right now. But things will change on 28th November 2022 because this PaaS platform is shutting down all of its freemium product plans, database services and dynos. Unfortunately, from this date, the monthly charges of Postgres Heroku will commence from $9, and there will be no free service.  

Therefore, this article will deeply overview this scenario and the benefits of using fully managed SQL databases. Also, we will analyze PostgreSQL and Heroku separately.  


Parse Server 5 – Closed Beta on Back4app

Parse Platform is an open-source backend tool kit developed and maintained by a community of experts that when combined with Back4App, allows you to access a scalable backend and launch mobile or web applications in just minutes, without having to worry about server infrastructure and management.

The tool kit, offers users the most popular backend features, including easy access to databases, REST API, GraphQL API, cloud functions, authentication, notifications, and cron jobs, which can all be deployed on any infrastructure running NodeJS.

In 2022, Parse Server 5 (a core component of the Parse Platform) was released, bringing several improvements to the popular backend tool kit.

Since its launch, Back4App has been working tirelessly with the open-source community to make this, the best version ever released!

Given its popularity, Parse is constantly being updated by the open-source community with the latest security patches, performance improvements, and new features, all covered in this article.


Elastic Beanstalk vs Kubernetes

Automatic software development and deployment is one of the most important things we need today. Developing and deploying the whole system manually from scrap takes a very long time, and it is not very efficient.

So, it also makes things inefficient for small and medium businesses as they cannot manage the hardware and team to develop/deploy their online system.

PaaS(Platform as a Service) is the best solution to all these problems. A good platform will always bring automatic development and deployment services.

 Two platforms that we will be discussing here are Elastic Beanstalk and Kubernetes. So, if you are also looking to choose one of them, this comparison will be vital in helping you select a platform.


Heroku vs Fly.io Comparison

This article will compare two of the best PaaS – Platform as a Service offerings available in the market. We will explore Heroku and Fly.io platforms according to their features, pricing structure, and featured customers.

An application stack or a group of software programs works together to obtain a common goal. The typical application stacks comprise closely related software applications that aid in completing a specific task.

Enabling ease of workflow, the platforms manage tasks, reduce work time and offer the right infrastructural facilities for development. In addition, it offers minimum interaction with software and the right environment to work in.

Let us draw a comparison of two popular platforms and evaluate their features and pricing. 


Elastic Beanstalk vs Firebase Comparison

Elastic Beanstalk and Firebase are two robust cloud-based platforms. These platforms offer highly sophisticated infrastructure for app developers to quickly design and develop their apps, deploy them online and track their progress.

The app developers can use the resources these platforms provide, including storage, computing capabilities, data usage, and others, to create their apps without worrying about the necessary infrastructure.


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