Google’s third developer conference, and the first to be called Google I/O, kicks off on Wednesday at the Moscone Center in San Francisco with a keynote presentation by Vic Gundotra, Google’s VP of Engineering.
Here’s what to expect:
- A focus on the ecosystem comprised of the browser as an operating system + ubiquitous connectivity + emerging cloud computing.
- Lifting of the restrictions around Google App Engine, their hosted computing environment.
- News about Google Gears
- Android Application Demos
- Minor news about Google Open Social
The big announcement will be around Google App Engine – expect the 160,000 or so developers on the waiting list to be let in tomorrow (75,000 have been given access already). Google will also lift the hard ceiling on resource usage. Currently applications are cut off when resource usage goes over a certain point (the cap equates to about 5 million page views per month for an average app). That cap will continue to apply until later this year, but they will announce the following usage fees tomorrow:
Free quota to get started: 500MB storage and enough CPU and bandwidth for about 5 million pageviews per month
$0.10 – $0.12 per CPU core-hour
$0.15 – $0.18 per GB-month of storage
$0.11 – $0.13 per GB outgoing bandwidth
$0.09 – $0.11 per GB incoming bandwidth
This pricing puts Google App Engine storage and bandwidth costs competitive with Amazon S3 (plus Google doesn’t have a per-request fee).
Google is also announcing two new tools for Google App Engine developers: an image-manipulation API and memcache. The image-manipulation API will allow developers to scale, rotate, and crop images on the server. The memcache API gives developers access to a distributed, high-performance in-memory key-value caching system. Memcache would have been useful for our own App Engine app (see it live here) to help us unload common queries from Google’s datastore. Also to note: no additional languages will be supported.
I just posted an interview with two of the App Engine product managers around these announcements:
http://readwrit...gle-app-engine/
- Sean
I hate Python
it’s time to give more attention to appengine
Mike – I prefer ruby myself, but one can’t argue against python’s established developer base and sheer capability.
Competition for Amazon is gooooooood.
Please support Rails!!!!
@6: RightScale + Amazon Web Services is the answer here. There’s really nothing special about what Google is doing.
This is great if you’re using Python, mind you, since it’s free initially, but it’s not like Rails developers have no other options.
Yes!! memcached! Please! http://feedego.com will really need it as well
And I love Python !
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I’m in the airport right now, on my way to this conference. Sounds like it will be good!
@4 — I realize this. But until they support other ‘favorable’ languages (in my book…), RightScale + AWS > * . Amazon’s services are solid as of now… and specifically talking about s3 — using the REST API couldn’t be easier to implement.
the only thing that keeps me from making the move to google app engine is the lack of support for third party open source tools like ffmpeg and imagemagick. Libraries written in python are afaik the only libs one can use. Of course one can still keep a box at home that fulfills only transcoding requests for example, but then I don’t really see the point of hosting the least-computationally-intensive part of my app with google.
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too bad i lack skills for an invite
Memcache is an orsm feature, something that most apps don’t have the liberty of using straight out of the box. I wonder what else is up there selves.
Question to Arrington: do you know know if this is going to compete with ASP.NET? As far as the programming platform is concerned I would think that the .NET tools are superior. But it would be awful easy to pull users from that framework when the user won’t have to worry about infrastructure. That is it would buy enough time until google’s web dev tools catch up to asp.
Hoping to see support for other popular languages soon on Google App Engine!
I love Python. Big Python fan. AppEngine is a joke however. Any comparison to Amazon’s services can only be from someone entirely ignorant about just how much AppEngine is crippled toy.
Has anyone here (with access to AppEngine) compared their storage solution with S3 and that or Nirvanix ?
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This is for Google
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I forgot to register. If I drive up there to SF tomorrow morning, how much do I have to pay for the 2 day pass?
If I do not get a response. I am going to sit here and eat Pizza instead and you will lose teh precious conference revenue.
I am serious, please respond.
Basically, how much is the door price, and do we have to pay cash or can we use a business debit?
https://www.web...oogle_io/forms/
These are pretty basic questions that are completely ignored on the registration form. It just says “If you would like to register, the registration desk will open at 8:30am on Wednesday, May 28 at Moscone West.”
Great, but that’s a 5 hour drive. I’d have to leave at 3AM.
Is there anybody from Google on here that could clarify?
I think Google has great prospects. While they solely rely on adWords right now, they are coming out with more and more revenue streams. I am looking forward to the acquisition between Google/Yahoo in the future. Seems like a huge war between Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo.
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I was there last month for adtech. I don’t mind driving up there. I just want to know how much it costs. I actually used Google to try to find out, but the search engine did not produce relevant results.
I’d like to go but I’m not driving 5 hours on a bunch of ?????
If they’re going to leave registration open on the 1rst day, then they should state the terms. Or they should answer me here.
http://209.85.1...G=Google+Search
Is the $400 correct? Are they still selling passes tomorrow morning?
Jesus, I know I’m going to end up driving there to find out.
OK Then. I guess if nothing else I can enjoy the overpriced gas and cold weather. See you in a few hours.
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If anyone is interested in attending the Google I/O event, please let me know. I got a free ticket from ReadWriteWeb last month and unfortunately last minute travel change has prevented me from attending. If anyone is interested let me know. You can email me here – freetechzone@gmail.com
The ticket is free.
And one of Europe’s largest social networks (35 mln users) Netlog will announce that they embrace OpenSocial http://thenextw...nical-director/
I set my alarm clock to 2AM so I could drive up to SF for 8:30AM registration , but when it rang I sleep walked to it and turned it the hell off.
That’s way too early. I was coding until 11PM and couldn’t handle 3 hours of sleep. Maybe next year google.
@25, I emailed you. If the ticket is transferable, I’ll just drive up there this morning and spend the night at some cheapo hotel from orbitz, and check it out tomorrow. Please get back. I could use a good drive today.
OK, I would need this now, like before 12PM PST in 2.5 hours, so I will make this simple.
If anybody won an unused ticket from TC, readwriteweb or any other blog, please send it to
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right now. Do not hesitate as I am driving up from LA and I need as much time as possible. I still want to go tomorrow, so if you intend to give away your ticket, please hurry up. Again I’m not paying just for 1 day, so understand your ticket is not going to waste.
I’ve gone into the Google App Engine versus Amazon Web Services in much more detail on my blog. This one’s focused on where Google beats Amazon. The surprising part is how badly Google beats it, particularly on the database. Big Table just destroys Simple DB, and I really like Simple DB and use it a lot.
I find many of the Rails/Ruby comments on here troubling because the programming language should not be the primary factor in your software decisions, but rather what you can write, how quickly you can write it, and how well it will work. If App Engine will scale way better than your flaky Rails stack, start writing in Python.
http://adamfisk...-simple-db-sqs/
They announced the projected prices and the image manipulation API but did they announce when you will be able to dynamically create files on their server (upload files via your app). Also, I like the image manipulation API but what about a video manipulation API similar to Nirvanix’s. I can’t see why Amazon and Google haven’t jumpled all over this yet. That makes more sense to do than not to do in my opinion.
就是国内是速度太慢，不然会发展很好