# App Engine Flex Language Shootout

DevFeed: [App Engine Flex Language Shootout](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/app-engine-flex-language-shootout-27376.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<http://engineering.khanacademy.org/posts/flex-language-shootout.htm>)

Author: Khan Academy

Published: 2017-04-17T22:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Khan Academy](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/khan-academy.md>)

Topics: [Hackathon](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hackathon.md>), [Back end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/backend.md>), [Elixir](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/elixir.md>), [distributed-systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/distributed-systems.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>)

Tags: [backend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backend.md>), [distributed-systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/distributed-systems.md>), [elixir](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/elixir.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [hackathon](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hackathon.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [news](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/news.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>)

## AI overview

A first-person account of a Khan Academy hackathon project exploring Google App Engine Flex and comparing programming-language options. The author describes Khan Academy's existing Python backend, interest in gaining experience with Flex, and personal interest in Elixir, while noting that a language switch was not imminent.

## Source excerpt

By Amos Latteier This is the second time I've been to Silicon Valley. Some years ago - never ... Read more