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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Fall 2011 App Engine events

Buenos días desde Buenos Aires!! Wow, we are just blazing through the summer! We had an exciting Google I/O in May where we saw the launch of the Go runtime, introduction of the Backends feature, and confirmed Google's commitment to the platform with our plans to leave preview mode, not to mention the five releases since that time. We then hit the road this summer with team members appearing around the globe, including mega events like the Cloud Computing Expo, EuroPython, and OSCON.At Google I/O, many App Engine team members gave in-depth technical...

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Pictarine: pictures in the cloud

Pictarine is a photo management web application, launched in 2010, that allows people to easily manage and share all of their photos from Flickr, Picasa, Facebook, Twitter and other sites. Pictarine developers Guillaume Martin and Maxime Rafalimanana have contributed the following post discussing their experiences using Google App Engine and Google Web Toolkit.From the start, we used Google technologies in developing Pictarine and we wanted to share...

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App Engine 1.5.4 SDK Release

It’s been a busy four weeks for us (you may have heard), but we are still on track with our new monthly release schedule. Today we have new SDKs for you, with some new features as well as some bug fixes.Overall ChangesBlobstore API - We’ve introduced an option to specify a limit on your blob upload size. This feature will allow you to expose blob uploads to your users, while still being able to ensure that their uploads won't exceed your preferred limits.Datastore Query Improvements - We’re also continuing our theme from the past few releases to...

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A few adjustments to App Engine’s upcoming pricing changes

Last week we rolled out side-by-side billing to give you a more detailed preview of how you’ll be affected by the price changes that we announced in May. We received a variety of feedback and have made a few important changes based on it. Our intent is to be as open and transparent about the changes as possible and to give you enough time to prepare. In that spirit, our Engineering Director has also shared some of his personal thoughts.We understand that the new rates surprised some of you. We’ve been listening closely to your feedback, and...

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