Hello, author here! I used GCP as it was familiar and quick to set up on that basis — we use it as our cloud provider at my day job — but I’ve got no special allegiance otherwise. I’m curious what you would’ve expected in its place? A corresponding AWS offering? A more ‘bare’ hosted VM from a commodity provider?
Sorry for drive-by (accidental) criticism, it was really more of a joke than anything. I haven't kept up to date at all and I think I missed that GAE is now a general-purpose hosting platform now (iirc in 2012 it was specific to a Google-provided framework). I think I'd use GAE now on further looks, or I guess something like Render if I didn't want to use GCP.
Hey if it works, it works. GAE still has a generous free tier. Most new stuff I’ve seen has been migrating to Cloud Run for more configuration and options.
