If you have been running an App Engine application over the last few months, you will have noticed that performance of the Datastore has drastically improved. In fact, it quickly improved after the blog post we wrote in May acknowledging the performan…
At Google I/O we announced the Mapper API. Built completely on top of public App Engine APIs today, this API is only the first component of App Engine’s MapReduce toolkit, but can be extremely useful on its own.
The Mapper API can already be of use …
Fresh from our exciting news from Google I/O last quarter (launch of Google App Engine for Business and new product developments), we now look ahead to the mid-summer months. Since I/O, we’ve already appeared at a number of events including the Google …
We have two scheduled upcoming maintenance periods for the Datastore:
July 7th, 2010 – 5pm-6pm Pacific Time (July 8th, 0:00 GMT) – Later today
July 14th, 2010 – 5pm-6pm Pacific Time (July 15th, 0:00 GMT)
As part of our on going Datastore reliabilit…
Today we are happy to announce the 1.3.5 release of the App Engine SDK for both Python and Java developers.
Due to popular demand, we have increased the throughput of the Task Queue API, from 50 reqs/sec per app to 50 reqs/sec per queue. You can also n…
Hello App Engine Developers!
My name is Praveen Alavilli (@ppalavilli) and I work as a developer evangelist for PayPal’s X Platform at PayPal.com. I want to take the opportunity to introduce you to our new open source toolkit for Google App Engine th…
This is a guest post from Jeffrey Rosen, of Wolfire Games.
Recently, Wolfire Games, joined by four other independent video game developers and two charities, put on a pretty unusual promotion: The Humble Indie Bundle. For twelve days, you could have …
We have completed the post-mortem on the Datastore outage App Engine experienced two weeks ago on May 25th. We greatly appreciate your patience in this.
A very small percentage of apps (approximately 2%) have been affected by unapplied writes as a res…
As many of you know, App Engine’s Datastore performance has been seriously degraded over the last few weeks. In addition to May 25th’s 45 minute Datastore outage, applications have seen an increased latency and thus errors as a result of timeouts….
This post is another entry in our on-going series of guest posts from App Engine developers. Today we have the Guardian reporting in on how they’re using App Engine as part of their Open Platform.
There has been a lot of debate recently about the futu…
App Engine has a storied history at Google I/O. Two years ago, we launched Google App Engine to at the inaugural I/O. It’s been two amazing years for App Engine and we’re very excited to be back at this year’s third annual I/O with the announceme…
It’s been a busy past few months for the App Engine team and we’re doing a ton of great stuff at I/O this year.
First up, we are happy to announce version 1.3.4 of the App Engine SDK for Python and Java developers. This release has a number of add…
A picture is worth a thousand words, and as developers, you know that a working code snippet can be worth even more. The developers at scisurfer.com have agreed to share a few of their code snippets with you today. The snippets outline how they full te…
One of the many classes of application that App Engine facilitates building is online games, particularly collaborative ones. Games often start off small, but can see incredible growth rates as people convince their friends to join, and App Engine’s …
Today we released version 1.3.3 of the App Engine SDK for both Java and Python. This is a minor release that includes changes and a few issue fixes for the datastore, administration console, and when deploying applications. For more information on all…