Fire Up Your Google App Engine
Published by Rodney Rumford April 7th, 2008 in Google.
At the Second Google Campfire tonight Google launched their app engine platform for developers.
You can now run your web applications on Google’s infrastructure. The Google App Engine enables developers to build web applications on the same scalable systems that power our own applications. Here is FAQ on the Google App Engine.
It will initially only support python; more languages to follow. In some ways their service is similar to the Amazon S2 & EC3 services. Google has also launched their Google app engine blog as well. It is so new it has zero subscribers in their feed reader numbers. Never seen that on a Google blog before. 
You can go and get in line for developer access. They ran out of invites in about 2 minutes tonight.
UPDATE: I just got approved. Yippee.
Robert Scoble recorded quite a bit of the event. You can see more on his QIK Channel. I have embedded the videos here. Stay tuned for a sneak peak of Mike Arrington wrapped in a blanket near the end.
Robert also talks with the people behind Pownce (Michael & Leaha) right after the presentations end. They were not overly impressed. I happen to like Pownce quite a bit.
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2 Responses to “Fire Up Your Google App Engine”
- 1 Pingback on Apr 8th, 2008 at 6:46 am
They were still accepting new people as late as 30 minutes after launch. The thing that has caught everyone off guard, including me, is that the confirmation message after you submit the form does not make it clear whether you are part of the first 10,000 or not. You just had to wait for the email.
On my blog I am trying to find anyone who did not make it. In order to find out how long the 10,000 lasted. http://luke.gedeon.name/how-many-minutes-did-it-take-to-get-10000-signed-up.html