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The Google App Engine allows developers to create web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications. It was introduced at Campfire One on April 7, 2008. It was initially available to the first 10,000 developers and there were limits on storage and bandwidth.
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Fast Facts:
- Preview Release launched April 7, 2008
- Free accounts have 500MB of persistent storage and bandwidth and CPU for 5 million monthly page views
- Competes with: Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, Amazon SimpleDB
Quotes:
- Google App Engine gives you access to the same building blocks that Google uses for its own applications, making it easier to build an application that runs reliably, even under heavy load and with large amounts of data. The development environment includes the following features:
- -Dynamic webserving, with full support of common web technologies
- -Persistent storage (powered by Bigtable and GFS with queries, sorting, and transactions)
- -Automatic scaling and load balancing
- -Google APIs for authenticating users and sending email
- -Fully featured local development environment
- --Paul McDonald, Product Manager
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Google App Engine Questions
Has anyone used Google's App Engine to host their applications? Any thoughts? 1 AnswerYes, I've run three applications on GAE so far, and they've all worked quite well. My blog, which uses a system I wrote on GAE (serves posts, admin controls, et... read more
Will Google App Engine Support Java? Can it? 3 AnswersWhen I was at Google Developer Day London 2008 a few months back, the guys from the AppEngine team were willing to admit that they will be introducing support f... read more
Is the Itunes Podcast database exposed to Google search engines? 2 AnswersIt is, but the previous poster is correct and it isn't the best resource. A good way to get an indication of whether you own podcast is getting any notice is t... read more
How will the Wolfram computational search engine save Google? 1 AnswerAs of today Wolfram-Alpha is mostly hype and though it might prove competition to Google in the future it isn't more than an academic curiosity at this point. I... read more
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Google App Engine Blogs and Commentaries
- Mashable: Google App Engine: An Early Look (April 8, 2008)
- Jaikido Blog: Wroom - we’re moving to Google App Engine (April 8, 2008)
- VentureBeat: Google App Engine Readies for Brawl with Amazon (April 7, 2008)
- CenterNetworks: Google App Engine Launches: Goes Directly After Amazon (April 7, 2008)
- PyThoughts Blog: Journey to Master with Google App Engine
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Coldfusion on the Google App Engine with Open BlueDragon http://bit.ly/5HldhW
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music sketch started this weekend, and today is some google app engine/django bootcamp with @teeteekay and greggie.
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Google App Engine Java, Groovy and Gaelyk http://www.slideshare.net/glaforge/google-app-engine-java-groovy-baby : great slides !
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@omaru google app engine mmm eso si me gusta, buen punto
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