In April 2008, the Google developer team announced a closed developer preview of their new Platform-as-a-Service offering: Google App Engine. Google invited 10,000 lucky (and brave) developers were to test and provide feedback on an early version of App Engine. By May, that number had increased to 75,000 active developers; Google announced fully open signups, making App Engine available to the masses.
In the years that followed, Google released a steady stream of products and features. With services such as Google Cloud Storage in 2010, Compute Engine in 2013, Cloud SQL in 2014, and Kubernetes Engine in 2015, Google has ...
