Notes from the build
Announcements, engineering notes, and guides for the person pointing an AI agent at the platform: what it can do, what it gets wrong, and what it must never be allowed to do.
The App Engine Search API Is Gone: Your Real Options in 2026
App Engine's Search API is retired. Here are the three honest replacement paths in 2026 — run your own cluster, adopt a big hosted search service, or use altengine's semantics-preserving revival — with the real trade-offs on cost, ops, and migration effort.
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.