When choosing a platform to power a new application that will be used by popular media sites, some of the criteria we look for are scalability, ease of deployment, and ease of management. As with the nature of news and media, traffic can go up and down…
Here are some of the recent developments from the greater developer community.deferred.deferNick Johnson recently added a new module to the App Engine Python SDK which allows you to use the task queue service to execute deferred function calls. This li…
Congratulations to Audrey Roy — her “Price It By Phone” application won the Google App Engine + Twilio developer contest that ran from September 21st to October 4th. Audrey will receive $1000 in Google App Engine credit, and a Dell Netbook from Twil…
Since the Task Queue API launched in June, we’ve been thrilled with
how many developers have started using the API.
Many developers have asked for more quota so that they can better utilize the API within their apps. We’re pleased that we can now addr…
We’re pleased to announce that you can now submit and comment on App Engine news and articles on a new App Engine specific section of the popular social media site, reddit. Our subreddit is for any articles, blog posts, or other content relevant to App…
Due to two issues introduced in the 1.2.6 release of the Python SDK, we are releasing version 1.2.7 today. This is a bugfix-only release with just a few minor changes (no new features or functionality); all users of App Engine for Python should upgrad…
The App Engine team is psyched to present version 1.2.6 of our SDK for both runtimes, Python and Java. This releases contains plenty of improvements and bugfixes, along with some exciting new features:
Incoming Email – Your App Engine app has been …
We hope you’ve been enjoying the new XMPP API we shipped in App Engine release 1.2.5. We’re always impressed with the cool scenarios our developers create!
A couple of Google engineers found the time to create cool App Engine demos using the XMPP API a…
This week, Google App Engine and Twilio challenge you to build voice or voice-enhanced applications hosted on App Engine that use Twilio’s voice application API to make and receive phone calls. Submit your app by October 4th to win a Dell Netbook from…
It’s September and the fall conference calendar is starting to fill up. Members of the App Engine team will present at these conferences: join us if you are in the area, and feel free to tweet @app_engine if you want us to participate in local develope…
I work for Norex, a web development company in Halifax, Nova Scotia. As part of our sponsorship of the 2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Halifax (Canoe ’09), we developed an application to deliver real time race results to standard and mobil…
At Google, we’ve learned through experience to treat everything with healthy skepticism. We expect that servers, racks, shared GFS cells, and even entire datacenters will occasionally go down, sometimes with little or no warning. This has led us to try…
As recently announced on the Google App Engine Blog, the 1.2.5 SDK for Python now includes a GUI for creating, running, and deploying App Engine applications when developing on Windows. We call this the Google App Engine Launcher.
About a year ago, a…
Today we are releasing version 1.2.5 of the App Engine SDK for both Python and Java, our first simultaneous release across both runtimes. We’re excited about the great new functionality in this release … including XMPP!
XMPP Support
XMPP (or Jabb…
When we released version 1.2.4 of the SDK earlier this month, a couple of new features were released that didn’t quite make it into the release notes. We think they’re really cool features, so we wanted to take the time to highlight them.The first feat…