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When Tom and I left Asana to build <a href="https://pod.io" target="_blank">Pod</a>, one of our biggest decisions was which cloud we wanted to build on. It’s a decision with huge path-dependency; changing infrastructure is tremendously costly, and each stack has quirks and limits that you’ll only discover after you’re locked in. In many ways, it’s a marriage. We decided on a <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/gae" target="_blank">GAE</a> marriage — putting the entire system on the <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/google" target="_blank">Google</a> Cloud.