Posted by Taliver Heath, Platform EngineerAt Google, we host a large number of "tech talks". These talks cover a wide rage of Computer Science topics like research in machine learning and methods for ranking images based on text queries. I've enjoyed attending these tech talks, but as the number of attendees has grown over time, the question-and-answer part of the talks hasn't been able to scale. There was never enough time for all the questions, and it wasn't clear that the best questions were the ones actually getting asked. And since many...
Wednesday, 24 September 2008
Thursday, 18 September 2008
Posted by Marzia Niccolai, App Engine TeamMany people have been asking for clarification on their application's CPU usage, and today we are happy to announce the release of a new Admin Console. These improvements are designed to give better insight in to your application's resource usage.Your application's dashboard now displays the average amount of CPU consumed for each of your handlers, as well as the percentage of CPU of that handler with respect...
Tuesday, 16 September 2008
Posted by Marzia Niccolai, App Engine TeamYesterday we released the latest SDK, and you can read all about it in the release notes.Notable new features in this SDK are: Support for zipimport and a new module, zipserve, which serves static files from a zip archive. These allow you to work past the 1000-file app deployment limit. The development console now includes a memcache viewer (you can use this by accessing http://localhost:8080/_ah/admin while your app is running on the SDK). URLFetch now allows users to disable automatically following HTTP...
Monday, 15 September 2008
Two weeks ago, there were two App Engine events in Seattle, and I have to say, Seattle is rocking cloud computing.The first event was at StartPad, a coworking facility where lots of great start-ups are based. Yours truly gave a presentation, interrupted quite frequently by excellent questions, to a crowd of about 40 people. There were lots of people interested in cloud computing, both Google App Engine and Amazon's AWS. After all, who wants to manage their own data center?The second event was Google's App Engine Hack-a-thon, where about 45 people...
Thursday, 4 September 2008
Posted by Amanda Surya, Google App Engine TeamWe're happy to announce Google App Engine hack-a-thon in Tokyo, Japan. This hack-a-thon is mainly for Japanese speaking people, but if you can only speak English, no problem, you are also welcome to attend.Build With Us, or Build Your OwnThroughout the day, we will be building a complete App Engine application, and sharing the code with you so you can code along with us. If, on the other hand, you already have a great idea for what to build, bring that idea along. Even better, prepare...
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