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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