Two weeks ago, Google announced a significant price increase for use of its App Engine Platform-as-a-Service. With vendor lock-in comes vulnerability to price increases. And for developers and app makers, this drastic shift may have been a “bet-the-company” decision without ever realizing it. Read More »
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Combine App Engine with Google Voice and you’d have a powerful — and extensible — communication platform that supports both a basic set of features for ordinary users, plus the ability to build custom softswitch applications using App Engine to control them. Read More »
I wrote recently that the time may be right for AWS to launch its own PaaS offering, if only to preempt any competitive threat from other providers’ increasingly business-friendly PaaS offerings. The time is indeed right, now that Google has introduced App Engine for Business. Read More »
Updated: Today we’ve received an email and seen multiple tweets alerting us to the fact that Google’s App Engine software development platform is down. We’ve emailed the company for details, but in the meantime, a check of the App Engine status page won’t… Read More »
When Google first released App Engine as a “Preview Release” last April, developers had relatively little computing power. Only a few apps got Google’s permission to grow beyond the free computing quotas, including BuddyPoke, Lingospot, Mentalfloss and
Until now, Google’s App Engine has been a great playground for coders: Everyone gets a daily quota of computing resources to play with. But without understanding how pricing will work when you go beyond those quotas, it’s been harder to understand business models… Read More »
The launch of Google’s Application Engine is a watershed moment in the software development industry. The days of building and hosting your own servers, save for specialized applications, are officially over. Meanwhile, companies that offer similar services will be forced to take a hard look at… Read More »
