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Notes from the build
Announcements, engineering notes, and migration guides as we build simple managed services in the App Engine tradition.
What managed search really costs: altengine vs. Algolia, Elastic, and the rest
Most hosted search either rents you a cluster with a monthly floor or bills per record until a catalog gets expensive. Here's how the options actually price out — and where altengine lands.
Announcing altengine: App Engine's Search, Channel, and Datastore, semantics intact
The Search and Channel APIs that App Engine retired are back, and its Datastore comes along as a standalone document store — three simple cloud services with a genuinely free tier. Here's what we built and why.