Google App Engine Buzz

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

So there has been a lot of buzz about the new Google App Engine, right now it only supports Python.

So unless I take the time to learn Django it’s pretty much dead to me for the moment.

Rails Support?

But if Google continue to expand on it and add support for more languages (like Ruby) then it could make deployment and running applications in a scalable production environment a whole lot nicer.

They have already given out all of the initial invites, so you won’t be able to deploy any apps you right yet but you can signup and get the SDK for all the major platforms and have a play with it.

As long as this project doesn’t become like a lot of other google projects and fade into the background, this may kick off a lot more interest in the future of development, inspiring other companies to compete with them in exciting ways, raising the bar for cheap and easy application hosting in the process.

It will be interesting to see how Amazon with their Web Services responds to this, I’m currently using S3 for image hosting on a number of my rails apps and there are a ways to run rails apps completely from EC2 but it’s too expensive compared to a cheap 256mb Slicehost account.

The Google app engine is completely free under a certain level of usage which would make it perfect for trying out small new apps whilst allowing them to stand up under a heavy digging.

The Blogosphere loves the Google

Here’s a list of all the interesting links I’ve seen about it on the web this morning:

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  2. […] Teabass - Andrew Nesbitt’s Blog wrote an interesting post today on Google App Engine BuzzHere’s a quick excerpt So there has been a lot of buzz about the new Google App Engine, right now it only supports Python. So unless I take the time to learn Django it’s pretty much dead to me for the moment. But if Google continue to expand on it and add support for more languages (like Ruby) then it could make deployment and running applications in a scalable production environment a whole lot nicer. They have already given out all of the initial invites, so you won’t be able to deploy any apps you right yet […]

    Web Hosting » Google App Engine Buzz on April 8, 2008 2:50 pm

  3. Maybe you can also give us a test drive, Andrew especially for the Rails apps project you are working on.

    We just recently launched our Morph Appspace and I invite you to visit and sign-up.

    Best.
    alain
    http://eedious.blogspot.com

    friarminor on April 8, 2008 4:35 pm

  4. I’m still trying to get S3 started up (mainly for backups). AWS and AppSpace are two very different things though, still, it’s interesting how this will rack up.

    stabani on April 8, 2008 9:33 pm

  5. Really:

    PHP > Python/Django, Ruby/Rails, CGI, Perl > other :P

    Political Monster on April 19, 2008 4:40 pm


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