Developers using Google Cloud Platform can now talk to each other, and to Googlers, in a brand-new Google+ Community.The new community is where we will share information about official Google Cloud Platform developer programs and events with you, to help more people get engaged. You can also get help from your peers, share your own stories and contributions, and find great developers to invite to join your project.Along with our other forums, such as StackOverflow, the Google+ community helps newcomers find the right resources more quickly.How...
Monday, 30 September 2013
Friday, 27 September 2013
How to mix and match web services, batch processing pipelines, mobile deployments and data analysis
Posted on 09:52 by Unknown

Do you need an environment that seamlessly scales to meet demand? Do multiple teams develop your app using a variety of programming languages? Do you need to mix managed applications and self-serve virtual machines running a variety of separate services? Google Cloud Platform has you covered on all fronts. Take a look at our latest paper to learn how to overcome the challenges of deploying large applications in Cloud Platform. Our paper discusses...
Thursday, 26 September 2013
App Engine 1.8.5 released – featuring Search API and PHP updates
Posted on 08:00 by Unknown
We’re back with Google App Engine 1.8.5, and this release focuses on an upgrade to the Search API and improvements to the PHP runtime. Next week we’ll be at Zendcon, one of the largest conferences for PHP developers, where we’ll have some cool things to share about the PHP runtime.Search API is now Generally AvailableSurfacing Google technology to developers everywhere is one of our goals with Cloud Platform. The Search API does exactly this. With...
Wednesday, 25 September 2013
AppScale brings choice to App Engine developers
Posted on 08:00 by Unknown
Today's guest post comes from Dr. Chandra Krintz, co-founder and CTO of AppScale Systems. AppScale Systems is the team behind AppScale, the open source cloud platform that brings portability and failover to App Engine applications.Recently, there have been interesting discussions around lock in and Google App Engine. With hosted cloud services, there is always a concern that the developers will find the barrier to exit too high. We have partnered with Google to relieve developers of the burden of porting their App Engine apps to other deployment...
Monday, 23 September 2013
How Streak makes debugging easy in App Engine Datastore
Posted on 11:22 by Unknown
Our developer community often creates interesting tools to customize their experience with Cloud Platform. The team at Streak built their Gmail-based CRM product using Google App Engine. Their founder, Aleem Mawani, blogged about how they created a system of audit logs to debug their usage of the App Engine Datastore. Read Aleem’s post on the Streak developer blog to learn how they did it.-Posted by Zafir Khan, Product Marketing Mana...
Thursday, 19 September 2013
Sendgrid now supports Google Compute Engine for sending transactional email
Posted on 06:00 by Unknown

One of the most common and yet difficult requirements that applications deal with today is sending email. Google Cloud Platform provides a variety of built-in solutions for sending mail like the mail.send_mail() API in App Engine. However, sometimes it’s easier to take advantage of a third party solution that puts 100% of its energy into solving that task. That’s where SendGrid comes in. We’ve been working closely with SendGrid to increase...
Wednesday, 18 September 2013
Google BigQuery goes real-time with streaming inserts, time-based queries, and more
Posted on 08:00 by Unknown

Google BigQuery is designed to make it easy to analyze large amounts of data quickly. This year we've seen great updates: big scale JOINs and GROUP BYs, unlimited result sizes, smarter functions, bigger quotas, as well as multiple improvements to the web UI. Today we've gone even further, announcing several updates that give BigQuery the ability to work in real-time, query subsets of the latest data, more functions and browser tool improvements.Real-time...
Monday, 16 September 2013
Check out technical solutions and sample apps to get you started on Google Cloud Platform
Posted on 09:54 by Unknown

Whether you are a startup considering Google Cloud Platform for a new venture or an existing company who wants to breathe new life into the way you do business, we’re here to help. We have experienced solutions architects and software engineers developing architecture frameworks and adaptable solutions to help you get started on Cloud Platform.Based on the strong interests we've heard from customers, we've created resources for you that focus on...
Wednesday, 11 September 2013
Where the cloud meets the road
Posted on 12:10 by Unknown
Cross-posted with the Google Developers BlogWith Google Cloud Platform, you can now get your hands on technologies that help power our infrastructure, and use it to power your own software.In order to help everyone get more comfortable using Cloud Platform, we are hosting five events for developers to meet Cloud Platform senior leadership, learn to code on our stack of products, participate in code labs, and ask questions of our engineering team.This fall, we’ll visit destinations in Europe, the Middle East and Asia: Tokyo (Sep. 19-20)Paris (Oct....
Tuesday, 10 September 2013
Running Apache Hadoop on Google Cloud Platform
Posted on 06:00 by Unknown
Hadoop is a common solution for companies and research organizations taking advantage of the Big Data revolution. Many find that as their data grows, their IT infrastructure and budget cannot keep up with the storage and computational demands required.Google Cloud Platform provides a compelling alternative to purchasing and managing more servers and storage devices by providing consistent high performance virtual machines that you can pay for by the minute. To help you get started we are releasing two solution papers and two sample applications...
Monday, 9 September 2013
Cloud Platform updates: App Engine 1.8.4 and new Cloud Storage and Compute Engine features
Posted on 14:59 by Unknown
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App Engine 1.8.4 releasedJust a few weeks following our last release, we’re back with Google App Engine 1.8.4. To make it even easier for developers to build and test their applications at scale, we’re better aligning the development environment with the App Engine production environment. We’re updating the development application server to perform more like the High Replication Datastore, so now it defaults to using an eventually consistent storage...
Thursday, 5 September 2013
Introducing CORR() to Google BigQuery
Posted on 13:35 by Unknown

Editor's note: Join Felipe Hoffa and Michael Manoochehri tomorrow, September 6th at 11:00AM PST on Google Developers Live where they'll discuss correlation with BigQuery.Google BigQuery is designed to make it easy to analyze large amounts of data quickly. We are always looking into how to make BigQuery even more powerful, so today we'll introduce a feature that we couldn't wait to share with you: Pearson correlation.BigQuery is transforming the ways...
Wednesday, 4 September 2013
Time to show what you can do with Google Cloud Platform!
Posted on 07:00 by Unknown

Google Cloud Platform is used around the world to create and deploy solutions that are affordable, scalable and easy to maintain. These qualities empower developers worldwide to solve local and global challenges with cloud technology . This sets the stage for the very first Google Cloud Platform Developer Challenge. We’re inviting you to build locally relevant web applications that solve real world problems. You will have the opportunity to “WOW”...
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