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Google App Engine

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Google App Engine

Google App Engine enables developers to build their web apps on the same infrastructure that
powers Google’s own applications. Features
Leveraging Google App Engine, developers can
accomplish the following tasks:
• Write code once and deploy Provisioning and
configuring multiple machines for web serving and
data storage can be expensive and time-consuming.
Google App Engine makes it easier to deploy web
applications by dynamically providing computing
resources as they are needed. Developers write the
code, and Google App Engine takes care of the rest.
• Absorb spikes in traffic When a web app surges in popularity, the sudden increase in traffic can
be overwhelming for applications of all sizes, from startups to large companies that find
themselves re-architecting their databases and entire systems several times a year. With automatic
replication and load balancing, Google App Engine makes it easier to scale from one user to one
million by taking advantage of Bigtable and other components of Google’s scalable infrastructure.
• Easily integrate with other Google services
It’s unnecessary and inefficient for developers to write components like authentication and email
from scratch for each new application. Developers using Google App Engine can make use of
built-in components and Google’s broader library of APIs that provide plug-and-play
functionality for simple but important features.
“Google has spent years developing infrastructure for scalable web applications,” said Pete
Koomen, a product manager at Google. “We’ve brought Gmail and Google search to hundreds
of millions of people worldwide, and we’ve built out a powerful network of datacenters to
support those applications. Today we’re taking the first step in making this infrastructure
available to all developers.”
Cost
Google enticed developers by offering the App Engine for free, when it launched, but after a few
months slapped on some fees. As of this writing, developers using Google App Engine can expect
to pay:
Free quota to get started: 500MB storage and enough CPU and bandwidth for about
5 million pageviews per month
• $0.10–$0.12 per CPU core-hour
• $0.15–$0.18 per GB-month of storage
• $0.11–$0.13 per GB of outgoing bandwidth
• $0.09–$0.11 per GB of incoming bandwidth
In response to developer feedback, Google App Engine will provide new APIs. The
image-manipulation API enables developers to scale, rotate, and crop images on the server.
The mem cache API is a high-performance caching layer designed to make page rendering
faster for developers.
More information about Google App Engine is available at http://code.google.com/ appengine/.

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