SAN FRANCISCO, 12:27 PM, TUE MAY 20 | 31 POSTS IN THE LAST 24 HOURS | tips@valleywag.com | SUBMIT A TIP | RSS
Posts Tagged “

Google, python

”
explainer

Why should you care about Google's App Engine?

Now that the announcement of Google's App Engine is official, it's opening up the company's cloud computing infrastructure as an API platform for Web application developers. Basically, it binds computing power, storage and database tools — much like Amazon.com's EC2, S3 and SimpleDB, respectively, but all tied together into one package. Plus, for the first 10,000 beta users at least, it'll be completely free up to a certain level of usage. What's in it for Google? More »

8:11 PM on Mon Apr 7 2008
By Jackson West
3,700 views, 25 comments

Latest by ron_paulite: i agree with scalawag. this thing smells fishy. it will be somewhat proprietary. Google wants to control the universe -- and that's why it has to keep reminding itself - do no evil. i disagree with Dweezil. more »