July 28th, 2010 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine
Back in March, we announced that all App Engine apps hosted on appspot.com would be reachable over IPv6, from ISPs enrolled in the Google over IPv6 program.
Today, we’re adding the same service to all domains hosted by ghs.google.com. If your App Eng…
July 27th, 2010 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine
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…
July 23rd, 2010 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine
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 …
July 8th, 2010 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine
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 …
July 7th, 2010 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine
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…
June 30th, 2010 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine
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…
June 30th, 2010 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine
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…
June 18th, 2010 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine
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 …
June 10th, 2010 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine
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…
June 2nd, 2010 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine
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….
June 1st, 2010 | by Fred Sauer, Developer Advocate | published in Google App Engine
Editor’s Note: Cross-posted from the Open Source at Google Blog.
Google App Engine is a powerful system, designed to take all the pain of infrastructure management and performance scaling out of web application programming. App Engine applications are…
May 20th, 2010 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine
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…
May 19th, 2010 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine
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…
May 19th, 2010 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine
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…
April 26th, 2010 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine
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…