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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 on Amazon
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Programming Google App Engine - $44.99
Written by the developers of Google App Engine, this book clearly explains how to build infinitely scalable web applications with this exciting new development platform. You'll not only learn how to perform common development tasks using Ap...
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Using Google App Engine - $29.99
With this book, you can build exciting, scalable web applications quickly and confidently, using Google App Engine -- even if you have little or no experience in programming or web development. App Engine is one of the most exciting web tec...
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Programming Amazon Web Services: S3, EC2, SQS, FPS, and SimpleDB - $49.99
Amazon.com: Programming Amazon Web Services: S3, EC2, SQS, FPS, and SimpleDB (9780596515812): James Murty: Books
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