Posts Tagged with ‘Google-App-Engine’

Earlier today at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) Microsoft has provided details on what we should expect from its promised cloud operating system.
The offer that was revealed today was initially referred to as Red Dog or Windows Strata or Windows Cloud at different times. Today we know the real name and it is Azure. The community technology preview of the new platform is already available to developers while the commercial version of the new operating system will not be available [...]

First came the Tweets: is such-and-such down? Can anyone else get into Google App Engine? Then came the blog posts and the endless discussion of "giving up your app to the cloud."
The simple fact is that web sites will go down. All web sites will fail to work at some point, because 100% uptime just doesn't exist. Software will be buggy. Hardware will fail. And the best anyone can hope for is that the site is large enough and [...]

In a rare case of actual advance financial planning on the web, Google has announced the price structure for its Google App Engine offering.  Granted Google is not necessarily the best example of financial planning in an online company, since they are all about the Benjamins with their AdWords, AdSense and other monetization strategies. It's just that it is so rare to see any company with a business plan online it stands out when it happens, like Sasquatch sightings.
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All hail Twitter Local which clued me in that RSSmeme creator Ben Golub actually lives in my own backyard. I planned on waiting until the next Open Coffee Club to grill him, but in honor of RSS Day, I bumped up my plan of attack and he agreed to an interview in honor of the day.
Cyndy: So what prompted you to come up with RSSmeme?
Ben: It's really all thanks to Louis Gray, who hyped Readburner, which is a great [...]

The most heated bitchmeme of the past few days appears to be the flap over one of the featured apps on Google App Engine, called HuddleChat. Since removed from the site, Daring Fireball was the first to note that it bore a striking resemblance to 37signals' Campfire.
Google detractors, of course, sided with 37signals, and wondered how Google engineers could have copied something so blatantly. Google fans, however, pointed out that there are only so many ways to build a persistent [...]

Last night, when the news of Google App Engine hit the web, I was hobbled with DNS issues that left me able to watch the Twitter stream but unable to read any of the details. Waking up this morning and finding all the Twitterati still throwing confetti, I'm starting to feel that I'm a lone dissenter when I say that I don't think Google App Engine is going to be good for the Web.
Just yesterday, Hank Williams followed up his [...]