Google App Engine is a Go
I blogged about this yesterday, and today Google has announced it’s development platform. Wow. They’re calling it Google App Engine.
I’ve added some more thoughts about this over here.
Here’s a snip from TechCrunch:
Google isn’t just talking about hosting applications in the cloud any more. Tonight at 9pm PT they’re launching Google App Engine (Update: The site is live), an ambitious new project that offers a full-stack, hosted, automatically scalable web application platform. It consists of Python application servers, BigTable database access (anticipated here and here) and GFS data store services.
Some interesting bits about this:
As predicted, it’s free. Well, free is relative. For no cost, you can host and build an application can use up to 500MB of persistent storage and enough bandwidth and CPU for 5 million monthly page views. For most IHE developers that will be plenty. According to Google, , you will be able to purchase additional computing resources. I’m sure since they’re giving away so much, the cost will be very low. Let’s hope so.
App Engine will load scale, offer persistant storage and if are using Google Apps for your domain, you can use your existing domain name setup. That’s very nice, though it’s trivial to set up an A name in DNS and S3.
I signed up for a developer account and I’m already on the waitlist, so if this is something you are interested in trying, I’d recommend signing up now - and if you don’t know Python, which this is based around, start learning.
Here’s the Google App Engine Blog and more about App Engine. Here’s a sample application, Huddle Chat, built on this setup.
This is going to be interesting.
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This looks pretty promising. From what I can see it’s very easy to build upon, and the fact that you don’t ever have to worry about scaling or server bog downs is pretty enticing. Now I just have to learn Python…
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