Compute Engine Load Balancing hits 1 million requests per second!

The C10k problem is so last century. How about serving 1 million load balanced requests per second in the cloud? Using publicly available Google Cloud Platform services, including Google Compute Load Balancing, we have done exactly that. Within 5 seconds after the setup and without any pre-warming, our load balancer was able to serve 1 million requests per second and sustain that level.This number is 20 times greater than the throughput in last year’s...

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Dedicated memcache is now generally available in App Engine 1.8.8

With the 1.8.8 App Engine release, we are glad to announce that dedicated memcache is now generally available.Dedicated memcache is an App Engine feature that lets you scale your caching capacity indefinitely without having to manage a server farm of memcached machines. After going into Preview in July, hundreds of customers have deployed many terabytes in production, including a single application using six terabytes. Customers have told us that with higher cache hit rates, dedicated memcache reduces their Datastore costs and makes their applications...

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Development tips for Google Cloud Endpoints for Android

You’ve been struck with an idea for the perfect idea for a mobile game on Android, and you’re sure it will be a hit. The details are a little fuzzy, but it definitely has something to do with cats. But, being an experienced engineer, you know how much work needs to go into creating and maintaining a scalable backend. You’re going to need servers, and then you’ll have to load-balance them. And you’re going to need to write protocols to enable your multiple servers to communicate with your mobile clients. So much work, and all you really want to...

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Offline Disk Import and the OmNomNom Machine

Yesterday, we announced that we are expanding our offline disk import service to better serve users globally. With new disk upload centers in Switzerland, Japan and India, as well as our US center, it’s easier for people around the world to import large data sets by mailing hard drives to us rather than sending hundreds of terabytes over their slow, expensive or unreliable Internet connection.But importing large amounts of data at scale isn’t simple....

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International Offline Disk Import now available with new disk-upload centers in Japan, India and Switzerland

Google Cloud Platform customers have told us that transferring large data sets (in the hundreds of terabytes and beyond) can be expensive and time-consuming over unreliable Internet connections. Today, we are pleased to announce that Offline Disk Import for Google Cloud Storage is available internationally in Limited Preview. Now, you can send disks to our disk-upload centers in Switzerland, Japan and India as well as the United States. From there, we will upload your data to your Cloud Storage regional buckets (US or Europe). It begins when you...

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Google App Engine integration features in IntelliJ IDEA and PyCharm

Today’s guest post comes from Maarten Balliauw, Technical Evangelist at JetBrains, the vendor of smart developer tools such as IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, PhpStorm, Android Studio and many more.We build tools that enhance developer productivity and code quality. We do this by providing plugins that support integration with databases, frameworks, and services, such as Google App Engine. In this post, we will look at how we’ve made it easier to deploy...

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Connecting mobile developers to the cloud with Google Cloud Endpoints

As a mobile application developer, some projects demand building your own backend, while others can move faster with a ready-made solution. Two updates we are making to Google Cloud Platform help you with either scenario. To help you build your own backend, Google Cloud Endpoints has now moved to General Availability. If you are interested in a ready-made solution, the new version of the Mobile Backend Starter is now available with support for large...

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Rovio, Freshplanet, Pocket Gems and others talk about building games on Google Cloud Platform

Steven Hauk of Rovio says that the most important thing to Rovio is “to delight our fans with great games and good products. And Google Cloud Platform allows us to focus on just that.”When Rovio ships a new version of Angry Birds, they don’t have to provision new hardware in order to serve over 250 million active users. And since Songpop launched and eventually reached nearly 100 million users across the world, its creators at Freshplanet never worried about whether their servers will be able to handle the load.That’s because these games are built...

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Build amazing real time games on Google Cloud Platform with Node.js and Websocket

Can you imagine the challenges associated with building a real-time game that has the potential to receive global media attention and a large number of simultaneous players? Wouldn’t it be great to have a working example that ties it all together? A highly-available, auto-scaling, cloud-based game with interactive mobile clients, a real-time browser display, backend database and compute-intensive services?We have published a new solutions article...

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Just Develop IT Migrates Petabytes of Data to Google Cloud Storage

We interviewed Brooke Bryan, CTO of Just Develop It Ltd (JDI), one of the leaders in device data backup with popular applications including My PC Backup. In early 2013, the company migrated 5 petabytes of data from Amazon S3 to Google Cloud Storage. Since then, JDI’s business has expanded their use to over 10 petabytes at a rate of 800 terabytes a month.What does Just Develop IT do?Just Develop It (JDI) was founded with the mission of developing...

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App Engine 1.8.7 and a platform that is great for game developers

This week, we are highlighting the great apps that game developers have built on Google Cloud Platform. App Engine in particular is used for a variety of game types, ranging from casual mobile and web games to real-time games on the web. Check out this paper, which describes an implementation that uses Google Compute Engine for the backend and App Engine for the frontend of a real-time game. For the rest of our gaming content, including technical solutions articles, customer stories and videos, stay tuned to the blog or follow us on Google+ and...

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Google App Engine helps MAG Interactive handle explosive growth of word game, Ruzzle

Today we hear from Daniel Hasselberg, co-founder and chief executive officer of mobile game development company, MAG Interactive, based in Stockholm, Sweden. MAG Interactive produces some of the most popular games in the world, including Ruzzle, which has more than 45 million players in 142 different countries.When we launched our word game Ruzzle in 2012, we had no idea it would become an international sensation almost overnight. We initially promoted the game only to our family and friends, but within two weeks of our launch, Ruzzle was the No.1...

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Applibot builds social games on Google Cloud Platform

Around the world, developers are taking advantage of Google Cloud Platform’s scale and speed to develop games. In this video, we talk to Koki Ukita, Executive Vice President of Applibot, about how Google Cloud Platform has allowed the company to remain “user focused.”In Japan, Applibot uses Google Cloud Platform to build and deploy their social and mobile games. With millions of downloads, these are among the most popular apps on the Google Play Store in Japan.-Posted by Benjamin Bechtolsheim, Product Marketing Mana...

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How to build scalable mobile games on Google Cloud Platform

You launch your mobile game and get a million downloads in a few days. Your dream is coming true! But your success is bittersweet, because your servers struggle to keep up with demand and your users, frustrated by timeouts, start publishing negative reviews while you scramble to increase server capacity. It doesn't have to be that way. The platform you choose to build on can help determine whether your launch is successful.Using Google Cloud Platform...

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Kaplan builds online education platform KAPx with Google App Engine

Today's guest post is from Charlie Ward, VP of Platform Development at Kaplan Inc., a global educational services company that operates in 170 countries and serves one million students annually. Charlie describes why Kaplan chose Google App Engine as the foundation for a scalable, flexible, and robust education platform that allows anyone to easily deliver learning content in both live and recorded formats.The Drivers for ChangeOngoing disruptions...

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