Google App Engine

[Henry Chang]

This is very interesting.  Thanks for sharing!

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 1:55 AM, Duncan Booth
<duncan.booth at invalid.invalid> wrote:
> Google have announced a new service called 'Google App Engine' which may
>  be of interest to some of the people here (although if you want to sign
>  up you'll have to join the queue behind me):
>
>  >From the introduction:
>
>  > What Is Google App Engine?
>  >
>  > Google App Engine lets you run your web applications on Google's
>  > infrastructure. App Engine applications are easy to build, easy to
>  > maintain, and easy to scale as your traffic and data storage needs
>  > grow. With App Engine, there are no servers to maintain: You just
>  > upload your application, and it's ready to serve your users.
>  >
>  > You can serve your app using a free domain name on the appspot.com
>  > domain, or use Google Apps to serve it from your own domain. You can
>  > share your application with the world, or limit access to members of
>  > your organization.
>  >
>  > App Engine costs nothing to get started. Sign up for a free account,
>  > and you can develop and publish your application for the world to see,
>  > at no charge and with no obligation. A free account can use up to
>  > 500MB of persistent storage and enough CPU and bandwidth for about 5
>  > million page views a month.
>  >
>  > During the preview release of Google App Engine, only free accounts
>  > are available. In the near future, you will be able to purchase
>  > additional computing resources. The Application Environment
>  >
>  > Google App Engine makes it easy to build an application that runs
>  > reliably, even under heavy load and with large amounts of data. The
>  > environment includes the following features:
>  >
>  >     * dynamic web serving, with full support for common web
>  >       technologies
>  >     * persistent storage with queries, sorting and transactions
>  >     * automatic scaling and load balancing
>  >     * APIs for authenticating users and sending email using Google
>  >       Accounts
>  >     * a fully featured local development environment that
>  >       simulates Google App Engine on your computer
>  >
>  > Google App Engine applications are implemented using the Python
>  > programming language. The runtime environment includes the full Python
>  > language and most of the Python standard library.
>  >
>  > Although Python is currently the only language supported by Google App
>  > Engine, we look forward to supporting more languages in the future.
>
>  http://code.google.com/appengine
>
>
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