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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
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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 News
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Cast Iron Systems Dominates Cloud Application Integration in 2009
The Cast Iron for Google Apps solution makes it easier for companies to integrate Google Apps and Google App Engine applications with other on-premise and ... (February 09, 2010)MarketWatch -
Oracle pushes PaaS cloud computing
One example of a public PaaS is Google AppEngine. “Businesses can use public clouds, or they can build their own private PaaS cloud if they prefer to ... (February 08, 2010)Malaysia Star -
Google will be the next Microsoft
Google wants to be at the forefront of Cloud computing and is pioneering its own efforts in the shape of the Google App Engine - Google's application ... (January 26, 2010)Inquirer -
Worlds Are Colliding! BPM, SOA and Managing the Cloud
... for my suppliers by using Google App Engine and then I'm going to put a private cloud infrastructure internally that captures and manages that data. ... (February 09, 2010)IT Business Edge (blog)
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Google App Engine Questions
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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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