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Glitch vs Google App Engine: What are the differences?
Developers describe Glitch as "The easiest way to build apps and bots". Combining automated deployment, instant hosting and collaborative editing, Gomix gets you straight to coding. The apps you create are instantly live, hosted by us, and always up to date with your latest changes. Build products, prototype ideas, and hack solutions to problems. On the other hand, Google App Engine is detailed as "Build web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications". Google has a reputation for highly reliable, high performance infrastructure. With App Engine you can take advantage of the 10 years of knowledge Google has in running massively scalable, performance driven systems. App Engine applications are easy to build, easy to maintain, and easy to scale as your traffic and data storage needs grow.
Glitch and Google App Engine can be categorized as "Platform as a Service" tools.
Pros of Glitch
- Bang! App built11
- Instant APPification ;)8
- Auto commits5
- No no. limitation on free projects3
- Easy to use2
- Tons of usable code1
- Awesome support1
- Very fast API creation. Especially for small apps1
Pros of Google App Engine
- Easy to deploy144
- Auto scaling106
- Good free plan80
- Easy management62
- Scalability56
- Low cost35
- Comprehensive set of features32
- All services in one place28
- Simple scaling22
- Quick and reliable cloud servers19
- Granular Billing6
- Easy to develop and unit test5
- Monitoring gives comprehensive set of key indicators4
- Create APIs quickly with cloud endpoints3
- Really easy to quickly bring up a full stack3
- No Ops2
- Mostly up2
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Cons of Glitch
- UI could be better / cleaner4
- Limited Support/Diffficult to use Non-JS Languages1
- Not good for big projects1
- Cannot delete project, only the source code is1
Cons of Google App Engine
- It's a Google product - they don't like your political1