Today I came in contact with a post writing about the Google App Engine.
"[...]Google App Engine is designed for developers who want to run their entire application stack, soup to nuts, on Google resources.[...]"
Focusing on service oriented architecture, this approach can be interesting, because companies can host their services on google and service consumers have a common way to access these services. By using the google platform developers can do the following:
- Write code once and deploy
Developers write the code, and Google App Engine takes care of the rest - Absorb spikes in traffic
Automatic replication and load balancing with Google App Engine - Easily integrate with other Google services
Using built-in components provided by Google
The service is now launching in beta and has a number of limitations. The first 10 000 developers will get a committment for development.
"The service is completely free during the beta period, but there are ceilings on usage. Applications cannot use more than 500 MB of total storage, 200 million megacycles/day CPU time, and 10 GB bandwidth (both ways) per day. We’re told this equates to about 5M pageviews/mo for the typical web app. After the beta period, those ceilings will be removed, but developers will need to pay for any overage. Google has not yet set pricing for the service."At present applications must be written in Python, because Googles infrastructure is based on it.
Update: Christoph wrote us a comment and refered to the Google App Enging Blog as good resource!
1 comment:
My first impression is that App Engine is a pretty damn good platform and I'm sure we're going to see many cool applications and services built on it over the coming weeks and months. What I really like about the thing is that it (seems to) lower the barrier-to-entry for developers and that's certainly quite an accomplishment.
Keep a close eye on the Google App Engine blog (http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/) and if you haven't done so definitely watch the 6-part introductory-series on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ztr-HhWX1c) for an impression of what it's all about.
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