Google App Engine
Google App Engine
Source: http://coding.derkeiler.com/Archive/Python/comp.lang.python/2008−04/msg01002.html
• From: Duncan Booth
• Date: 8 Apr 2008 08:55:57 GMT
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
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Google App Engine
* 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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