I'm posting an early link round up today, but there will be another to follow at the end of the day. The reason for the early post is I wanted to dedicate an individual post to Google's new Appengine that was released last night.
Apparently Appengine was made available for the first 10,000 individuals who signed up. At 6am, I'm on the waiting list. I'd be interested to know just how quickly it took to get 10,000 developers to sign up.
I think Appengine represents a significant milestone, one that I have been waiting for Google to do for quite some time now. We've had cloud computing available from Amazon.com, and I truly feel they paved the way for this. However, for any size deployment you pay. At Appengine, that isn't the case, they quote that it is free to get started:
Every Google App Engine application can use up to 500MB of persistent storage and enough bandwidth and CPU for 5 million monthly page views.
Suddenly, anyone with an idea for an online app can immediately begin prototyping their idea with relatively little overhead cost.
I do see a few drawbacks:
- Language availability - Currently only Python is supported. In the Appengine documentation, it states other languages may be added. link
- Pricing unknown - Currently, the pricing structure for going over the free user quota isn't made known to the public. Additionally, you aren't allowed to go over user quota without specifically making a request to Google. Until pricing is made known, I would be wary of putting all my eggs in this basket. However, knowing Google, I'd imagine pricing will be appropriate for the service provided.
Links:
- Official Google Blog: Developers, start your engines
(tagged as: appengine cloud google google.services) - YouTube - Developing and deploying an application on Google App Engine
(tagged as: ap appengine Google videos) - Google App Engine - Google Code - I've been wondering when this was going to come out.
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