Posts Tagged ‘Google App Engine’

App Engine: Cloud-Computing Defense By Google

Tuesday, August 9th, 2011

The war of cloud hosting is on hype among all the reputed online players. In this turmoil scenario of hosting challenges placed forth by certain well-known names how come Google be resting on its back. Google has answered the virtual hosting solutions challenges through its defensive offer of App Engine. The initiation of this solution rests more on offering supremacy in computing tactics rather than merely raw applications. The solution offered by Google in cloud hosting is oriented more towards giving out exceptional application in emails and coding daises. Among the most straightforward offers by Google it aims at giving out modest rectifications in cloud computing’s and that is how it wants to make the persuasion of its clients to get molded towards the solution it offers in cloud computing and grab maximum of developers and networks. App Engine is one such effort of Google which it has been indorsing for target corporations and enterprises to get webbed in its services.

App Engine

After the successful launch of App Engine in 2008 it directed the trend towards smaller enterprises to get more stable in web medium and thus building modified applications. App Engine is made compatible with Pythagon language and the access to resources was made limited to the eventual users. With the passage of time the cloud server, App Engine was given certain productive modifications like addition of java features that was of significant success in corporate sector.

App Engine has adopted itself as a separate forum of service in cloud computing trends where it disperses numerous applications and virtual techniques among virtually weaved compound users. It offers access to limited resources but restrains the use to a certain limit to maintain the security aspect of cloud. It also offers additional modification of features with surplus charges to give expanded bandwidth, storage and other applications to the clients. Google aims at sustaining a cloud medium that is protected as a service platform. It aims at making the software a whole package and cloud computing a full fledge suite for the users on virtual medium. The outstanding features of App Engine have enhanced the scalability, the reliability and success rate of this cloud computing solution by Google. App Engine is supposed to give out the networked medium of all feasible solutions that will for sure serve as best alternatives to conventional dedicated and shared servers and is believed.

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Windows Azure as Top Cloud Choice for Developers

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Windows Azure as Top Cloud Choice for Developers is what the head of Microsoft’s Windows Azure team said at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC).  Microsoft has positioned Windows Azure as the “general purpose” cloud platform in the cloud hosting industry. The key Microsoft officials delivered targeted messages about the Windows Azure platform as the more mainstream, general-purpose cloud platform as compared to competing offerings such as Amazon Web Services, Google App Engine and Salesforce.com’s solutions, among others.

“At Microsoft we’re pulling platform as a service (PAAS) and infrastructure as a service (IAAS) together in Windows Azure,” said Bob Muglia, president of the Server and Tools Business at Microsoft. “Windows Azure is the world’s first general purpose cloud platform,” he added.

Amitabh Srivastava, senior vice president of Microsoft’s Server and Cloud Division said in an interview when asked about the Windows Azure cloud server; “Google is a platform as a service, but it’s only restricted to two languages – Python and Java. You have to fit in with the way they do things. We’re being general purpose. Amazon is an infrastructure as a service; they provide no tools support. How you develop your applications is your concern. You’re on your own. We support any language and multiple frameworks. We provide a rich ecosystem of technology or you can use open source software like MySQL or Apache. Our approach is we don’t put any shackles on the developer.”

Srivastava who is part of the Azure “Red Dog” development team that created the Windows Azure cloud computing platform, said from its inception Windows Azure targeted developers.

“When we were developing Azure from day one it was done for developers,” he said. “You have to allow developers to bring their skills, their current set of skills, to the cloud. So we said developers should get to choose tha language they want to use. You can use any environment you want. You can use Visual Studio or you can do the entire development in Eclipse. You can’t pigeonhole developers into one or two languages or one or two frameworks. Just because our lineage is Windows Server doesn’t mean we will restrict you to using C# or a Microsoft language.”

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Google App Engine’s #FAIL

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

Google is finally acknowledging that the performance of the product’s datastore has been low for weeks.  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.

The datastore problems in the App Engine components, have been caused by the platform’s growth, which has outpaced server capacity, Google said in a blog post on Wednesday.  “There are a lot of different reasons for the problems over the last few weeks, but at the root of all of them is ultimately growing pains. Our service has grown 25 percent every two months for the past six months,” the blog post reads.

Later stating “We want you to know we are taking the current problems with the Datastore very seriously. We have put other Datastore projects on hold to dedicate more people to accelerating improvements to Datastore performance, and to our datacenter configuration. We expect the Datastore may still have a few issues for the next two weeks, as we respond to the problem. After that point you should begin to see rapid improvements in performance, back to normal levels. Until that point, however, we believe Datastore performance may continue to be at a level that we feel is unacceptable.”

The Google platform will need to get the these performance problems under control in order to earn my trust back… Anyone else?

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