In the upcoming Google App Engine 1.8.1 release, the Datastore default auto ID policy in production will switch to scattered IDs to improve performance. This change will take effect for all versions of your app uploaded with the 1.8.1 SDK.You can try out the new behavior in the development application server, where scattered auto IDs are the default. These IDs are large, well-distributed integers, but are guaranteed to be small enough to be completely represented as 64-bit floats so they can be stored as Javascript numbers or JSON. If you...
Friday, 31 May 2013
Thursday, 30 May 2013
Today’s guest post is from Alex Bertram of Bedatadriven, who helps clients leverage data and analysis to achieve their goals with software development, consulting and training. In this post, Alex describes why they chose to use Google App Engine and Google Cloud SQL.One of Bedatadriven’s core projects is ActivityInfo, a database platform for humanitarian relief operations and development assistance.Affected populations plotted by size...
Friday, 24 May 2013
(Cross-posted on the Official Google Australia Blog) Today’s guest blogger is Joshua Lowcock, Head of Commercial Platforms and Products for News Limited, an Australian media company. Joshua describes how his company used Google App Engine in Australia.News Limited is one of Australia’s largest media companies, spanning newspapers, magazines, online, and subscription TV. We publish over 140 online and printed newspapers in major Australian cities including Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth, as well as in suburban areas. Classified...
Thursday, 23 May 2013
Since its inception in 2011, Google App Engine High Replication Datastore (HRD) has grown and currently processes over 4.5 trillion transactions per month with 99.95% uptime. In addition, HRD serves as the basis of Google Cloud Datastore, which we announced last week at Google I/O.We are always evaluating opportunities to create more value for you and today we are reducing Datastore prices by up to 25%. This price change impacts both App Engine HRD and Cloud Datastore. Below is a breakdown of the new pricing:StorageResourceOld Unit CostNew Unit...
At the Game Developers Conference last month, we held a day of sessions showing developers how to take advantage of Google Cloud Platform to build all kinds of different games. We invited some of our top developers to share their stories and best practices, including LeanPlum, who is building a powerful mobile optimization platform, EA, who is building some really amazing games, and Staq, who is creating a unique game management platform. Check...
Monday, 20 May 2013
Today’s guest post is from Thomas Orozco, Solutions Engineer at Scalr, which provides cloud management services and integrates with Google Cloud Platform. Thomas shares Scalr’s experience working with another Google partner, grandcentrix, to deliver the Eurovision companion app.Eurovision is a song contest where each European country sends one singer to compete in a televised competition (similar to American Idol for our American readers). It is...
Thursday, 16 May 2013
At Google I/O, we announced PHP as the latest supported runtime for Google App Engine in Limited Preview. PHP is one of the world's most popular programming languages, used by developers to power everything from simple web forms to complex enterprise applications.Now PHP developers can take advantage of the scale, reliability and security features of App Engine. In addition, PHP runs well with other parts of Google Cloud Platform. Let's look at how...
At Google I/O, we announced Google Cloud Datastore, a fully managed solution for storing non-relational data. Based on the popular Google App Engine High Replication Datastore (HRD), Cloud Datastore provides a schemaless, non-relational datastore with the same accessibility of Google Cloud Storage and Google Cloud SQL.Cloud Datastore builds off the strong growth and performance of HRD, which has over 1PB of data stored, 4.5 trillion transactions...
Wednesday, 15 May 2013
Last year we announced Google Compute Engine to enable any business or developer to use Google’s infrastructure for their applications. Now we’re taking the next step: Google Compute Engine is open to everyone in preview, and you can sign up online now.Over the past year, we’ve launched several features and made significant improvements behind the scenes. We’re now announcing several new capabilities that make it easier and more economical to use...
Over the last fourteen years we have been developing some of the best infrastructure in the world to power Google’s global-scale services. With Google Cloud Platform, our goal is to open that infrastructure and make it available to any business or developer anywhere. Today, we are introducing improvements to the platform and making Google Compute Engine available for anyone to use.Google Compute Engine - now available for everyoneGoogle Compute Engine provides a fast, consistently high-performance environment for running virtual machines. Later...
Monday, 13 May 2013
Cross-posted with the Google Developers BlogAfter last year's Google I/O conference, the Google Cloud Platform Developer Relations team started to think about how attendees experienced the event. We wanted to help attendees gain more insight about the conference space and the environment itself. Which developer Sandboxes were the busiest? Which were the loudest locations, and which were the best places to take a quick nap? We think about data problems...
Thursday, 9 May 2013
Welcome to the Google Cloud Platform blog, the evolution of the Google App Engine blog, which continues as a key component of our broader Google Cloud Platform vision. On this blog, you can find product updates, developer tips, and other content related to Google Cloud Platform.Our goal is to build the best cloud platform for developers; one that is comprised of multiple services that work together in harmony. A key component of delivering on this goal is creating a centralized communication channel to discuss updates across the entire Google...
Google I/O 2013 is only a week away! We look forward to sharing updates across Google Cloud Platform. Here’s everything you need to know to keep up with the latest happenings at I/O.This year, we will have a Google Cloud Platform track kickoff given by Urs Holzle, Senior Vice President of Technical Infrastructure, on Wednesday, May 15th at 12:45 PM Pacific. You can watch the stream on the I/O Live Stream page. Urs will make a few special announcements, so you won’t want to miss it.At I/O, we have an entire Cloud Platform track complete with...
This was an exciting week for the Debian community who released Debian 7.0 “wheezy” that brings big improvements including hardened security, improved 32/64-bit compatibility and addresses a lot of community feedback. Today we’re adding Debian images for Google Compute Engine. Debian, in collaboration with us, is providing images for both Debian 7.0 “wheezy” and the previous stable release, Debian 6.0 “squeeze.” This support will make it easy for anyone using Debian today to migrate their workloads onto Compute Engine.For fast performance and...
Do your customers upload files to Google Cloud Storage for your applications to process? For example, a photo app may want to create thumbnails of new images as soon as they are uploaded. Normally you would have to poll for updated objects which can be a resource waste or cause you to react slowly. Most times writing and deploying custom scripts to trigger your application is cumbersome.Today, we're releasing object change notification as a preview feature, allowing you to watch your Google Cloud Storage buckets for new, modified, or deleted objects...
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