Google App Engine - Changes Everything - The Diigo Meta page

• 10 Apr 08
  

  lei zhou

  google google-app-engine

• 09 Apr 08
  

  Arrix Z

  python

  • • Single sign-on for Google users. Everyone with a gmail account is already registered for your service. You have no idea how cool this actually is :)
     
    • BIGTABLE. My god. I would've spent in excess of $100k to have access to this part of Google's infrastructure and saved money. Scaling SQL databases sucks. If you have the kind of access patterns that we do, databases designed for OLTP are simply not suitable and it's a real pain to try and make it work. The fact that schema is managed directly in the code and that schema upgrades look awfully painless is a huge extra bonus.
     
    • Works locally, deploys globally
     
    • Python and WSGI!
     
    • No more going to the data center, provisioning bandwidth from telcos, etc.
     
    • Payment is surely coming. No more PayPal or Verisign or whatever.
  • While MySQL and PostgreSQL still have some years left in them as people learn how to write scalable apps, I can't see that model lasting very long now that you don't have to be in Google's employ to use better solutions to the data problem.
• 08 Apr 08
  

  Mike Stenhouse

  In the same way that Google Apps (and Mac OS X) have enabled people to run without IT departments, Google App Engine is going to let them go big without an ops department.

  webdevelopment hosting google python appengine

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