Google Cloud Platform Powers Minyanville’s Buzz and Banter

Today’s post is from Philip Talamas, CIO Minyanville Media, Inc., a New York based financial media company. In this post, Philip looks at the benefits his company received from switching from a major public cloud provider to Google Cloud Platform.At Minyanville Media, our goal is to create branded business content that informs, entertains, and educates all generations about the worlds of business and finance. We designed our premium Buzz &...

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Tutorial: Adding a cloud backend to your application with Android Studio

Android Studio lets you easily add a cloud backend to your application, right from your IDE. A backend allows you to implement functionality such as backing up user data to the cloud, serving content to client apps, real-time interactions, sending push notifications throughGoogle Cloud Messaging for Android, and more. Additionally, having your application’s backend hosted on Google App Engine means that you can focus on what the cloud application...

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Get Coding Faster Thanks to Little Green Buttons

On the Google Cloud Platform team we're always looking for ways to make developers' lives easier, so you can focus on building interesting applications instead of worrying about managing infrastructure.We also want you to be as productive as possible when you're busy writing code. We provide an SDK which offers access to production APIs, in a way that's compatible with a local development environment.But sometimes you just want to dip your toes in...

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Enabling Google App Engine to run in the Private Cloud with CapeDwarf

We hear consistently from developers that they want to see more portability of their apps when working in the cloud.  The Google Cloud Platform team has been collaborating with the Redhat/JBoss Application Server team to help them provide an alternate implementation of Google App Engine running on top of JBoss to facilitate portability and openness.The bulk of the collaborative work between Google and Redhat is really around the open source Test Compatibility Kit (TCK) project:Google engineers provided many of the tests of the internal...

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Enabling offline disk import for Google Cloud Storage

Transferring large data sets (in the hundreds of terabytes and beyond) can be expensive and time-consuming over the public network. To help, we're beginning a limited preview of offline disk import for Google Cloud Storage, which lets you load data by sending us a physical hard disk drives (HDDs) of data that we load on your behalf. Using this option can be helpful if you’re limited to a slow, unreliable, or expensive Internet connection.To use offline disk import, write your data to HDDs and then ship them to a Google import center using a mail...

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Google App Engine 1.8.1 Released

Hot on the heels of this year’s Google I/O, Google App Engine 1.8.1 is now released. Below are some of the significant changes that are part of 1.8.1.Search APIIn 1.8.1 we’re moving the Search API to Preview. The Search API allows your application to perform Google-like searches over structured data. You can search across several different types of data (plain text, HTML, atom, numbers, dates, and geographic locations).This Preview release is one step closer to General Availability (GA). Between now and then we will only be making slight modifications...

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Cube Slam meets Google Cloud Platform

The Google Creative Lab team has built another fun Chrome Experiment called Cube Slam. Cube Slam connects players into a three dimensional, virtual gaming arena, complete with real-time audio, video, and data feeds.Cube Slam demonstrates some of the coolest new web technologies, all in one application:WebRTC - WebRTC, a free, open project that provides Real-Time Communications (RTC) capabilities via simple Javascript APIs is built right into Chrome...

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Google BigQuery gets bigger, faster, and smarter with big result sets and new analytics functions

Google BigQuery is designed to make it easy to analyze large amounts of data quickly. Today we announced several updates that give BigQuery the ability to handle arbitrarily large result sets, use window functions for advanced analytics, and cache query results. You are also getting new UI features, larger interactive quotas, and a new convenient tiered pricing scheme. In this post we'll dig further into the technical details of these new features.Large resultsBigQuery is able to process terabytes of data, but until today BigQuery could only...

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Building Google Apps Extensions running on Google Cloud Platform

Today’s post is from Alex Kennberg, VP of Engineering at Synergyse. In this post, Alex describes how their company uses Google Cloud Platform to build their training solutions for Google Apps.Synergyse chose to focus on enhancing training for Google Apps because of the continuous innovation it brings to the enterprise and education spaces. We built Synergyse Training for Google Apps, a fully interactive, measurable and scalable training solution...

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Bridging Mobile Backend as a Service to Enterprise Systems with Google App Engine and Kinvey

The following post was contributed by Ivan Stoyanov, VP of Engineering for Kinvey, a mobile Backend as a Service provider and Google Cloud Platform partner. Kinvey helps individual and enterprise developers dramatically reduce the time and cost of developing and maintaining a backend for their native and HTML5 mobile apps.Over the past year at Kinvey we have observed a number of mobile development trends. First, developers are building more complex...

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Cloud SQL API: YOU get a database! And YOU get a database! And YOU get a database!

Google Cloud SQL lets developers host their MySQL databases on Google Cloud Platform. We take care of replicating the data, backups, updates and other admin overheads so you can concentrate on launching great applications. The Cloud SQL API we are launching today makes it easier to manage lots of instances programmatically by providing an API for common tasks such as creating and deleting instances, increasing or reducing their size, and taking and restoring backups.For example, you can create a new database instance in your project like this:...

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Get your mobile application backed by the cloud with the Mobile Backend Starter

(cross-posted on the Android Developers Blog)Many of the best mobile app experiences are powered by services in the cloud. However, running your own servers can detract from focusing on your client experience. Google App Engine has long been a fantastic platform for mobile developers such as Pulse and SongPop. Now with the Mobile Backend Starter, we've made it even easier for you to get started with App Engine.Mobile Backend StarterMobile Backend...

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