Last year, we featured a guest post by Jeffery Rosen, of Wolfire Games about the Humble Indie Bundle, an awesome promotion for a good cause: spreading awareness of indie games, and supporting charity. For 12 days, you could name your own price for a bundle of awesome independent games, with proceeds split as you wish between the game developers and two deserving charities, Child's Play and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. They hosted the Bundle on App Engine, to great effect - read the original blog post to learn more.The good news is, they're...
Friday, 17 December 2010
Thursday, 2 December 2010
App Engine version 1.4.0. is here! It’s our most significant release of the year for the App Engine SDK, including a number of very big features that we know developers have been eagerly awaiting:The Channel API - A bi-directional channel for communicating directly with user browsers by pushing notifications directly to the JavaScript running on the client, eliminating the need for polling. This service makes it easy to build real-time applications...
Friday, 22 October 2010
The following post is a guest post by Chris Bunch, a Computer Science Ph.D. student at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is one of the student leads on the AppScale project, an open source Google App Engine compatible hosting solution led by Professor Chandra Krintz. Chris has developed and maintained AppScale as a research project over the last two years with fellow student lead Navraj Chohan and others.---------Over here at the UCSB Racelab, we've complained endlessly about finding a web framework we actually could use. For a long...
Thursday, 14 October 2010
Today, we’re releasing version 1.3.8 of the App Engine SDK. Whether you’re a Java or a Python developer, this release includes several exciting new features for improving monitoring, performance, and maintenance tasks.Instances ConsoleThis release includes a new page in the Admin Console, called the Instances page. This page allows you to view information about all server instances currently in use by your application. This information can be useful...
Thursday, 30 September 2010
It's conference season, and we're going around the world again! This fall, Google team members will be speaking about App Engine at events in more than 10 countries! In addition to the regular conference circuit, Google is also hosting Developer Days and DevFests in a variety of locations to bring not only App Engine but a bunch of Google technologies directly to you!Fall 2010:Sep 30 - Oct 1 - OpenWorld Forum - Paris - Patrick ChanezonOct 1 - Google DevFest Taiwan - Taipei - Ping YehOct 2-4 - Cloud3Days - Fukuoka (JP) - Takashi MatsuoOct 9-10 -...
Monday, 30 August 2010
Last week we announced our 1.3.6 release with lots of new, exciting features to try out. After it was released, developers dug into all the new functional and discovered a pair of issues that required a quick fix. Today we are releasing version 1.3.7 of the SDK in both Java and Python to fix two issues that shipped with last week’s release 1.3.6.The first issue was with the Python SDK, which was missing the functionality to assign a namespace based on the Google Apps domain. With this release the function google_apps_namespace() should exist and...
Tuesday, 17 August 2010
Today marks the 1.3.6 release of App Engine for Java and Python. In this release we have made available several exciting new features, relaxed quota and datastore limitations, and added various issue fixes.Multi-tenant Apps Using the Namespaces APIWe are pleased to announce support for multi-tenancy for applications via the Namespaces API. With multi-tenancy, multiple client organizations (or “tenants”) can all run the same application, segregating data using a unique namespace for each client. This allows you to easily serve the same app to multiple...
Greetings App Engine Developers!My name is Dan Murray. I'm a Founder and Managing Director at WebFilings http://www.webfilings.com. In March 2010 my company launched a first-of-its-kind SaaS solution that dramatically improves the process of developing and filing financial reports with the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC). Google App Engine provides the foundation for our backend. Since our launch, my company is experiencing what can only...
Monday, 9 August 2010
We recently announced the Mapper API, a first step in a broader effort to provide full MapReduce capabilities on App Engine. While we still have some work ahead of us, there’s already a lot that can be done with today’s Mapper API. One area of particular interest is report generation.Most applications create and maintain large numbers of detail records: entities in data models, transaction history or event logs. In order to glean useful information out of these vast data sets, your application has to iterate over your entities, summarize and breakdown...
Wednesday, 4 August 2010
Update Oct 2010: It's been several months since we introduced you to Little Fluffy Toys and their exciting Google App Engine story. Since then, their app has continued getting rave reviews. We're happy to let you know that there is a great follow-up to this story from the Android and UI/UE/UX perspective, and you can find it here: http://blog.radioactiveyak.com/2010/10/android-app-surgery-cycle-hire-widget.html This post is another entry in our ongoing...
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
Back in March, we announced that all App Engine apps hosted on appspot.com would be reachable over IPv6, from ISPs enrolled in the Google over IPv6 program.Today, we're adding the same service to all domains hosted by ghs.google.com. If your App Engine app runs on your own domain name using Google Apps, then be sure to review our earlier blog post, which discusses the caveats of parsing client IP addresses, and how to use the SixXS Gateway to test your site over IPv6.Currently, the Google over IPv6 program presents AAAA records only to ISPs within...
Tuesday, 27 July 2010
If you have been running an App Engine application over the last few months, you will have noticed that performance of the Datastore has drastically improved. In fact, it quickly improved after the blog post we wrote in May acknowledging the performance issues. We chose to wait until this point to ensure that we could maintain the performance and quality of service. Thanks to a huge effort from the Datastore engineering team and our Production team, the metrics over the past month have made us confident that we have returned to a level of performance...
Friday, 23 July 2010
At Google I/O we announced the Mapper API. Built completely on top of public App Engine APIs today, this API is only the first component of App Engine’s MapReduce toolkit, but can be extremely useful on its own.The Mapper API can already be of use to many developers who would otherwise need to build their own tool for doing large scale data manipulation. In addition to taking care of the distribution of these jobs over task queues, it provides the ability to store state, batch datastore writes via mutation pools, and ships with an easy to use administrative...
Thursday, 8 July 2010
Fresh from our exciting news from Google I/O last quarter (launch of Google App Engine for Business and new product developments), we now look ahead to the mid-summer months. Since I/O, we've already appeared at a number of events including the Google DevFest Australia and Philippines, PyCon AU, and the Malaysia Open Source Conference, with many more coming this month. There are several well-known large conferences (and many smaller ones too) that our team members will be attending and/or speaking at, so hopefully we'll get to meet you at one of...
Wednesday, 7 July 2010
We have two scheduled upcoming maintenance periods for the Datastore:July 7th, 2010 - 5pm-6pm Pacific Time (July 8th, 0:00 GMT) - Later todayJuly 14th, 2010 - 5pm-6pm Pacific Time (July 15th, 0:00 GMT)As part of our on going Datastore reliability work, we'd like to inform developers that during the period between the two maintenance events listed above, we are expecting that Datastore performance will be impacted and applications will see higher read/write latencies. This maintenance and the higher latency in between are an unfortunate, but necessary...
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
Today we are happy to announce the 1.3.5 release of the App Engine SDK for both Python and Java developers.Due to popular demand, we have increased the throughput of the Task Queue API, from 50 reqs/sec per app to 50 reqs/sec per queue. You can also now specify the amount of storage available to the taskqueue in your app, for those with very large queues with many millions of tasks. Stay tuned for even more Task Queue scalability improvements in the future.Additionally, in this release we’ve also added support for precompilation of Python source...
Hello App Engine Developers!My name is Praveen Alavilli (@ppalavilli) and I work as a developer evangelist for PayPal's X Platform at PayPal.com. I want to take the opportunity to introduce you to our new open source toolkit for Google App Engine that provides an easy way to integrate your Java apps running on App Engine with the new PayPal's Adaptive Payments API. Currently this is a Java toolkit explicitly for App Engine Java, but a Python version...
Friday, 18 June 2010
This is a guest post from Jeffrey Rosen, of Wolfire Games.Recently, Wolfire Games, joined by four other independent video game developers and two charities, put on a pretty unusual promotion: The Humble Indie Bundle. For twelve days, you could have gone to the promotional site and paid what you want (divided any way you choose among the developers, the EFF, and the Child's Play Charity) for a bundle of independent video games, all compatible with Mac, Windows, and Linux.The reason why I've been invited to write this guest blog post is because...
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