Google App Engine

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.

1. Preview Release launched April 7, 2008
2. Free accounts have 500MB of persistent storage and bandwidth and CPU for 5 million monthly page views
3. Competes with: Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, Amazon SimpleDB

• • 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

• 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