For our October release we have a number of offerings, fixes, and small refinements as colorful as the fall season.
General Enhancements
Django 1.4 is now fully supported for Python 2.7
Java classloading priority can now be granted to specific JA…
Today’s guest blogger is Hernan Liendo, CTO of Zupcat, developer of social games played by millions of people worldwide. Hernan shares his team’s experience using App Engine to build RaceTown, a multiplayer racing game.
Choosing a…
Cross-posted with the Google Developers Blog
Today’s guest blogger is Aleem Mawani, co-founder of Streak, a startup alum of Y Combinator, a Silicon Valley incubator. Streak is a CRM tool built into Gmail. Aleem shares his experience bui…
Today’s guest post comes from Ryan Campbell and Stephen Connolly, developers at CloudBees. CloudBees is a major supporter of Jenkins, the popular open source continuous integration server, and the creator of DEV@Cloud, a hosted version of Jenkins.
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Google BigQuery, a service for performing real-time analytics on your data, launched several exciting new features this morning. Part of the release is a new feature which enables you to import data from our experimental Datastore backup tool di…
In addition to the usual crop of new features and improvements, the App Engine team spent a week this summer fixing bugs reported through our issue tracker. We fixed or closed out more than 130 bugs. Many of the fixes are included in this release.
App…
We are delighted to make Virtual IP (VIP) based SSL more widely available to developers by announcing a reduction in price. From the 25th of September, VIPs will be $39/month – down from the previous price of $99/month. For those applications already …
Have you ever wanted to use a new feature of Google App Engine, but were uncertain of how to get started? Documentation and sample applications are a great way to start learning about App Engine, but sometimes a more interactive approach can make all t…
If there were an Olympic coding event, we have no doubt that the gold medal winner could be found amongst the App Engine developer community. So today we’ve got a new release out so you can hone your skills just in case they are needed in Rio in 2016…
Today’s guest blog post comes from 17-year-old Brittany Wenger, the winner of this year’s Google Science Fair. Brittany built an application on Google App Engine called the “Global Neural Network Cloud Service for Breast Cancer.” This artificial ne…
In addition to the startups and businesses we frequently highlight on our blog, we have seen educational institutions and their students build amazing applications, using Google App Engine as a platform for teaching and groundbreaking research.
Earli…
Developers know that logging and logs analysis can often mean the difference between delighting and disappointing users. With the Google App Engine LogService API, it’s easy to add logging to your App Engine App with just a few lines of code. But of …
Today’s post comes from Mark Downey of eXo, creator of Cloud IDE. Cloud IDE is an online IDE for Java, Python, PHP, Ruby or Javascript, and for nearly two years it has been used by developers to build applications for a number of PaaS environments. …
App Engine engineers talk to developers in the cloud platform sandbox at Google I/O
The dust has settled on another fantastic Google I/O. The skydiving demos and delicious jelly beans were great, but we had the most fun talking to developers and hea…
Today at Google I/O we were pleased to announce a new service, Google Compute Engine, to provide general purpose virtual machines (VMs) as part of our expanding set of cloud services. Google App Engine has been at the heart of Google’s cloud offering…