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Using Google App Engine
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The greatest single reason that the World Wide Web has been so widely used and adopted is because individuals are allowed to participate in the Web. People can produce web content and create a MySpace page or home pages provided by their school or organization and contribute their creativity and content to the Web. Free services like Blogger, Flickr, Google Sites, Google Groups, and others have given us all an outlet for our creativity and presence on the Web—at no charge. For most of the life of the Web, if you wanted to have your own rich software-backed website with data storage, your only choice was to purchase hosting services from an Internet Service Provider (ISP) and learn database management and a programming language like PHP to build or run your software. Learning and paying for this much technology was just beyond the reach of most web users, who simply had to accept the limited features of MySpace, Blogger, or whatever system hosted their web content. In April 2008, Google announced a product called App Engine. When you write a program for the Web that runs on App Engine, your software runs on the Google servers somewhere in the Google “cloud.” It is as if you are a Google employee and you have access to the entire scalable Google infrastructure. App Engine captures much of Google’s experience of building fast, reliable, and scalable websites, and through App En- gine, Google is revealing many of the secrets about how its own applications scale to millions of users.
Charles Severance - Personal Name
978-0-596-80069-7
NONE
Information Technology
English
2009
1-264
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