Simple development of App Engine apps using Cloud SQL - Introducing Google Plugin for Eclipse 2.5

Since we added SQL support to App Engine in the form of Google Cloud SQL, the Google Plugin for Eclipse (GPE) team has been working hard on improving the developer experience for developing App Engine apps that can use a Cloud SQL instance as the backing database. We are pleased to announce the availability of Google Plugin for Eclipse 2.5. GPE 2.5 simplifies app development by eliminating the need for manual tasks like copying Cloud JDBC drivers,...

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App Engine 1.6.1 Released

We have one more release this year to make our developers merry, and while some members of our team enjoy the summer sunshine down under, we’ll be taking a short winter break from releases. Don’t worry, we’ll be back to our normal schedule in January, but we couldn’t resist tempting you with some new features that will keep you up tinkering well past midnight on January 1st.Platform ChangesFrontend Instance Classes - For applications that need more CPU and/or memory to serve requests, we’ve introduced two larger frontend instance classes. Before...

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Whentotweet.com - Twitter analytics for the masses

Our post today comes from Stefan and Niklas of Whentotweet.com, a nifty site that recommends the best time of day to tweet based on your followers’ habits. Twitter handles an amazing number of Tweets - over 200 million tweets are sent per day. We saw that many Twitter users were tweeting interesting content but much of it was lost in the constant stream of tweets. Whentotweet.com is bornWhile there were many tools for corporate Twitter users that performed deep analytics and provided insight into their tweets, there were none that answered the...

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Scaling with the Kindle Fire

Today’s blog post comes to us from Greg Bayer of Pulse, a popular news reading application for iPhone, iPad and Android devices. Pulse has used Google App Engine as a core part of their infrastructure for over a year and they recently celebrated a significant launch. We hope you find their experiences and tips on scaling useful.As part of the much anticipated Kindle Fire launch, Pulse was announced as one of the only preloaded apps. When you first...

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New Datastore client library for Python ready for a test drive

Last week we announced that App Engine has left preview and is now an officially supported product here at Google. And while the release (and the announcement) was chock-full of great features, one of the features that we’d like to call specific attention to is the new Datastore client library for Python (a.k.a “NDB”). NDB has been under development for some time and this release marks its availability to a larger audience as an experimental feature. Some of the benefits of this new library include:The StructuredProperty class, which allows entities...

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Google BigQuery Service: Big data analytics at Google speed

Our post today, cross-posted with the Google Enterprise Blog, comes from one of our sister projects, BigQuery. We know that many of you are interested in processing large volumes of data and we encourage you to try it out.Rapidly crunching terabytes of big data can lead to better business decisions, but this has traditionally required tremendous IT investments. Imagine a large online retailer that wants to provide better product recommendations...

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App Engine 1.6.0 Out of Preview Release

Three and a half years after App Engine’s first Campfire One, App Engine has graduated from Preview and is now a fully supported Google product. We started out with the simple philosophy that App Engine should be ‘easy to use, easy to scale, and free to get started.’ And with 100 billion+ monthly hits, 300,000+ active apps, and 100,000+ developers using our product every month it’s clear that this philosophy resonates. Thanks to your support, Google is making a long term investment in App Engine!When we announced our plans to leave preview...

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ProdEagle - Analyzing your App Engine apps in real-time

Today’s post comes to us from Andrin von Rechenberg of MiuMeet who has developed an easy to use analysis framework, ProdEagle, for App Engine apps. ProdEagle enables you to easily count and visualize events to help better understand both performance and usage of your site.ProdEagle allows you to monitor your system, lets you analyse in real-time what is going on and can alert you if something goes wrong.The storyWe are a small start-up that created...

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App Engine SSL for Custom Domains in Testing

The long awaited SSL for Custom Domains is entering testing and we are now looking for trusted testers. If you are interested in signing up to test this feature, please fill in this form.We will be offering two types of SSL service, Server Name Indication (SNI) and Virtual IP (VIP). SNI will be significantly less expensive than VIP when this service is launched, however unlike VIP it does not work in all browsers that support SSL. VIP is a premium service with a dedicated IP and full browser support. Both VIP and SNI support wildcard certificates...

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App Engine 1.5.5 SDK Release

2011 has seen some exciting releases for App Engine. As the days get shorter, the weather gets colder, and all that Halloween candy starts tempting everyone in the grocery store, we’ve been hard at work on our latest action packed release. Premier AccountsWhen choosing a platform for your most critical business applications, we recognize that uptime guarantees, easy management and paid support are often just as important as product features. So today we’re launching Google App Engine premier accounts.  For $500 per month (not including...

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Google Cloud SQL: Your database in the cloud

Cross-posted from the Google Code BlogOne of App Engine’s most requested features has been a simple way to develop traditional database-driven applications. In response to your feedback, we’re happy to announce the limited preview of Google Cloud SQL.You can now choose to power your App Engine applications with a familiar relational database in a fully-managed cloud environment. This allows you to focus on developing your applications and services, free from the chores of managing, maintaining and administering relational databases.Google Cloud...

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Project WOW

Today's post is contributed by Edward Hartwell Goose of PA Consulting, who is working on an App for the UK’s Met Office to report everyone's favorite bit of small talk, the weather. We hope you find the discussion of his team's experience using App Engine illuminating.The UK’s Met Office is one of the world’s leading organisations in weather forecasting, providing reports throughout the day for the UK and the rest of the world....

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