30th
App Engine rocks
Yesterday I took Google’s App Engine for a spin.
If you’ve never heard of App Engine - it basically allows you to write interactive web applications and host them on Google’s servers.
What’s really cool is Google handles scaling your application. So, if your application is really popular, you don’t need to spend lots of cash on buying more servers.
At the moment it is in a limited beta. During the beta there are certain limitations - for instance, 500 megs of space and 10 gigs of daily bandwidth each way. In the future you’ll be able to purchase more resources if you start to use up your free quota.
It literally took me 5 minutes to have something up and running. The SDK is so easy to use, and uploading and monitoring the app was a breeze.
There are a few things I’d need before I could write a truly cool app - namely cron jobs and memory caching - however for now, I’m racking my brains for more ideas to launch on the current system!
