How Safari Books Online uses Google BigQuery for business intelligence

Today’s guest post is from Daniel Peter, Senior Programmer Analyst at Safari Books Online. In this post, Daniel describes how his company uses Google BigQuery to power their dashboards and analytics.Safari Books Online is a subscription service for individuals and organizations to access a growing library of over 30,000 technology & business books and videos. Our customers browse and search the library from web browsers and mobile devices,...

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Multi-Channel Chat with Twilio and Google App Engine

Today’s post comes from Kevin Whinnery, Developer Evangelist at Twilio. In this post, Kevin describes how to build a multi-channel chat application using Google App Engine and Twilio. You can follow Kevin on Twitter at @kevinwhinnery or on Google+.Google App Engine enables developers to focus on their application’s logic by providing a scalable infrastructure and high-level APIs for persistence, file management, and other common web app needs. XMPP...

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Google App Engine: Hello World using Push-to-Deploy

Ever wished you could deploy to Google App Engine with the same standard tools you use to version your code? Now you can. With the Push-to-Deploy feature you can get your code onto App Engine using git and bypassing the SDK. Here is a quick example on how to clone a sample app from an existing public repository and deploy it as your own App Engine application.Prerequisites: If you don’t have the git tool installed, get it here.Setting up your Push-to-Deploy...

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SendGrid gives App Engine developers a simple way of sending transactional email

Today’s guest post is from Adam DuVander, Developer Communications Director at SendGrid. SendGrid is a cloud-based email service that delivers email on behalf of companies to increase deliverability and improve customer communications. Integration with new or existing email systems is done via SMTP or through a REST API. In this post, Adam shows how to integrate SendGrid into Google App Engine.Whether you’re developing apps for the web or mobile environments, you need an effective way to communicate with your customers. Building and maintaining...

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Create dynamic web projects in Eclipse

The latest release of the Google Plugin for Eclipse supports the creation of Dynamic Web Projects for Google App Engine. Applications created in this manner fully leverage Eclipse’s Web Tools Platform (WTP), which makes it easier to create and structure Java EE web applications and allows Google App Engine developers to benefit from advanced tooling the Eclipse Ecosystem offers for the Enterprise space.Here are a few features enabled by the new,...

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New in Google Cloud Storage: auto-delete, regional buckets and faster uploads

We’ve launched new features in Google Cloud Storage that make it easier to manage objects, and faster to access and upload data. With a tiny bit of upfront configuration, you can take advantage of these improvements with no changes to your application code — and we know that one thing better than improving your app is improving your app transparently! Today we’re announcing:Object Lifecycle Management - Configure auto-deletion policies for your objectsRegional Buckets - Granular location specifications to keep your data near your computationgsutil...

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Dedicated memcache preview now available on Google App Engine

Yesterday we announced that dedicated memcache is in Preview. Now you can purchase in-memory data caching capacity exclusively for your application, cache more data and drive up cache hit rates. With higher cache hit rates, dedicated memcache can also reduce Datastore costs and make your application faster than ever. Dedicated memcache has been one of the top 100 features requested by App Engine customers.With the 1.8.2 release, App Engine now...

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Google App Engine 1.8.2 released

Today we are announcing the release of App Engine 1.8.2 which includes significant improvements for large-scale application development, developer tooling, runtimes and a new dedicated memcache service. Dedicated MemcacheDedicated memcache is now in Preview. App Engine developers already enjoy a free shared memcache that allows them to cache data in order to improve performance, but in some cases your application needs more control over your cache....

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Help us improve Google Cloud Platform by participating in a Build Day Study

We are constantly looking to improve our products by gathering real customer feedback from you. Often times it's through G+ comments, 1:1 interactions, Twitter, conferences, and more.  'Are you interested in learning more about Google Cloud Platform development as well as helping improve our products directly? You can by participating in a Google Cloud Platform Build Day Study! Selected participants will be invited to our Mountain View or Seattle campuses to work with Google engineers on a day-long build as a part of a User Experience...

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Get up and Running with Cassandra on Google Compute Engine

Recently, Eric Johnson released a guide to setting up a Cassandra cluster on Google Compute Engine. Cassandra is a NoSQL database that is designed around distributed principles. By distributing data across multiple nodes, your cluster becomes resilient to individual node failure, and scaling up your cluster is as trivial as adding new nodes.The guide walks you through creating your nodes (instances), setting up Java, and creating and configuring...

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Lock-in, what lock-in?

A frequent theme we have heard from customers and read in the community lately has been about lock-in. What does it mean to choose a cloud provider? What trade-offs are reasonable but also proprietary? Is there a model that works or can work for you? Peter Magnusson, the engineering director responsible for Google App Engine, takes on the topic recently on G+ and it is worth a read. But he’s not the only pundit discussing the topic and I’m sure he won’t be the last. Take a look at Peter’s thoughts and let us know what you think.- Posted by...

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Development in the Cloud with Codenvy and Google Cloud Platform

Today’s post is from Tyler Jewell, CEO at Codenvy. In this post, Tyler looks at how you can leverage cloud based development tools to build applications for Google Cloud Platform.Codenvy is a cloud development environment for coding, building, and testing applications for Google Cloud Platform. In a recent LinkedIn survey, 1200 engineers indicated that they spend nearly ⅓ of their week administering their desktop. This includes configuring the...

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See how to test drive Virtual Machines on Google Compute Engine in 10 minutes

A single US cent stretches quite far when experimenting with Google Compute Engine. Watch this video to see how affordable and quick it is. In this video, we walk through the steps required to create a Google Cloud Platform project and start up a virtual machine. Next, we install a web server (Apache) on the virtual machine and fetch a web page to confirm a successful installation. Finally we tear down the virtual machine to wrap up the exercise...

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IT Operations Management for Google Compute Engine based Apps with Boundary

The following post was contributed by Gary Read CEO of Boundary, a modern IT operations management platform provider and Google Cloud Platform partner. With the Boundary service, operations teams can get early warnings about potential problems, before the dominoes start to fall, so that they can prevent application outages. Get a free, full functional version of Boundary just for Google Compute Engine customers.Cloud services like Google Compute...

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Google App Engine takes the pain out of sending iOS push notifications

Delivering scalable, reliable mobile push notifications when hundreds of thousands of users have installed your app on their phones can be a major headache. Fortunately, Google App Engine’s support for sockets and accessible but powerful queues makes it easy to quickly build a mobile backend that can reliably scale to huge numbers of devices. Get the code!We’ve created a simple push notification application to help you get started in our Github repository...

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