narayanb

Never used App Engine before, was always on AWS.

Recently for my Andriod app, I thought of giving GAE a try. The app was on Firebase, the only "Server" I needed was to send a push notifications (Downstream). So, I just went "Google Cloud Module" wizard with "Endpoints" option on Android Studio.

And created this simple servlet.

/ * An endpoint class we are exposing / @Api( name = "pushApi", version = "v3", namespace = @ApiNamespace( ownerDomain = "com.example.sample", ownerName = "com.example.sample", packagePath = "" ) )

public class MyEndpoint {

    PushBean response = new PushBean();

    /**
     * A simple endpoint method that takes a name and says Hi back
     */

    @ApiMethod(name = "pushToTopic")

    public PushBean toTopic(@Named("topic") String topic, @Named("dataJson") String dataJson) {

        try{
            response.messageTopic(topic,dataJson);
            return response;
        }catch(Exception e){
            return null;
        }
    }

}

And deployed this on my backend. After 1 month of running in staging (I hadn't published the app yet and I would have called the end point around 1000 times), I got a bill of around $450. It said I had consumed around 8600+ hours of GAE instance. I almost fell of my chair when I saw that. Even if my instance ran all through the month, it could have only cost 720 hours.

I am just wondering what happened. What am I missing here? Did I do anything stupid? Can someone help me?

I have been writing code ever since I was 5 years old. Was pretty good at it. I became an entrepreneur 5 years ago and since last 3 years I haven't been coding. I have to take care of product, strategy etc. Now I am completely out of touch. How to get back to it? Obviously I have the coding aptitude, but I am out of touch with the current tools, APIs, function calls, libraries. What is the rehabilitation plan? Anybody who has gone through this?

Is there any exclusive clause on these crowdfunding websites? If not why don't people do that, it could hedge their risk.

I see most of the times whatsapp does not even send you an SMS (I don't see any SMS in the messages app). Then how do they verify the phone number?

Is there an API which provides the real time trending news topics at this time? I have seen trendingtopics.org but it is mostly popular topics in Wikipedia and doesn't make much sense.

After reading through the judgment of Andrew Auernheimer case, I feel really taken aback and scared! How could calling 'public' GET API be unauthorized action? How could the judgment be passed so fast and carelessly? And why aren't the AT&T 'subscribers' suing them for keeping their private information insecure?

Frankly, now as a developer every time I make a "GET" request, I have this fear of getting jailed!

Google Play portal is completely broken. - The homepage is incomplete. - App search is yielding totally irrelevant results. Search "Google" and you get a complete random list with "Verizon Mobile" as the first result.

Anyone else ?