Good morning I/O-ers and welcome to day two! We hope you got a chance to see all of the great sessions on day one and, if you missed our big announcements from yesterday, take a look at all the great features in 1.5.0 including Backends and our plans for App Engine to leave preview later this year.We’ve got a great set of sessions lined up for day two including updates on our progress with Full-text Search and MapReduce. We’ve also got two great sessions on a subject close to developers’ hearts: reliability.Under the Covers with the High Replication...
Wednesday, 11 May 2011
Tuesday, 10 May 2011
The Year Ahead for Google App Engine!
Posted on 10:00 by Unknown
Google App Engine has grown tremendously since it launched in Preview status in 2008. More than 100,000 developers use App Engine every month to deliver apps that dynamically scale with usage without the need to manage hardware or software. App Engine now hosts more than 200,000 active apps that serve over 1.5 billion site views daily. Over the last three years we’ve collected great feedback from our customers and have continued to improve our services. We are now confident that App Engine is almost ready to graduate from Preview status, and...
App Engine 1.5.0 Release
Posted on 09:30 by Unknown
The App Engine team has been working furiously in preparation for Google I/O time and today, we are excited to announce the release of App Engine 1.5.0, complete with a bunch of new features. This release brings a whole new dimension to App Engine Applications with the introduction of Backends, some big improvements to Task Queues, a completely new, experimental runtime for the Go language, High Replication Datastore as the new default configuration (and a lower price!), and even more tweaks and bug fixes.Serving ChangesBackends: Until now all...
Monday, 9 May 2011
Who's at Google I/O: Evite
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This post is part of Who's at Google I/O, a series of guest blog posts written by developers who are appearing in the Developer Sandbox at Google I/O. It's also cross-posted to the Google Code blog which has similar posts for all sorts of Google developer products.Evite is one of web's oldest social planning services. Since the launch in 1998, Evite has delivered over a billion party invitations. Although it has served us well, after ten years of...
Accessing Gmail accounts from App Engine with Context.IO
Posted on 10:08 by Unknown
This is part of our on going series of blog posts from guest authors highlighting success stories from applications and services built on or targeting App Engine developers. Today, we have a post from Bruno Morency of Context.IO. Bruno has been involved in startups since graduating from McGill Engineering in 2001. And since being introduced to Pine on UNIX terminals, he’s had a love-hate relationship with email.Email mailboxes contain years of important conversations and business information yet there are no easy ways for App Engine developers...
Friday, 6 May 2011
Royal Wedding Bells in the Cloud
Posted on 07:34 by Unknown

As the centuries pass, waves of change wash over us - the invention of the steam engine, photography, space travel, the Internet. We may think these inventions change everything. But some things stay the same. Like our world-wide romantic fascination with a Princess finding her Prince, and their First Royal Kiss.And so it was only fitting that the highest traffic levels ever on Google App Engine occurred at the moment of the first (and second!)...
Thursday, 5 May 2011
Who's at Google I/O: Elastic Path
Posted on 15:59 by Unknown

This post is part of Who's at Google I/O, a series of guest blog posts written by developers who are appearing in the Developer Sandbox at Google I/O. It's also cross-posted to the Google Code blog which has similar posts for all sorts of Google developer products.Elastic Path develops a very flexible enterprise ecommerce platform. Many global brands rely on the Elastic Path platform to power their ecommerce solutions.Many ecommerce sites are actually...
Who's at Google I/O: Mojo Helpdesk
Posted on 15:49 by Unknown

This post is part of Who's at Google I/O, a series of guest blog posts written by developers who are appearing in the Developer Sandbox at Google I/O. It's also cross-posted to the Google Code blog which has similar posts for all sorts of Google developer products.Mojo Helpdesk from Metadot is an RDBMS-based Rails application for ticket tracking and management that can handle millions of tickets. We are migrating this application to run on Google...
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