Google App Engine turned one year old today – they launched the service, which lets developers build web applications on Google’s infrastructure, on April 7 2008.
And it has been a good year. Despite the fact that App Engine only supports Python applications, 150,000 developers have flocked to the service, says Google. They’ve launched 50,000 applications, and those apps generate more than 100 million daily pageviews. Look for Java, a much more popular programming language, to come soon. Possibly even this evening.
Google says they eat their own dogfood, too, and have launched nearly 50 projects and small products on App Engine, including Google Moderator and Labs for Google Apps.
Even President Obama has used (well, indirectly) App Engine, using Moderator to gather questions for a virtual town hall meeting on whitehouse.gov. Google says that the site peaked at 700 hits per second, and 92,934 people submitted 104,073 questions and cast 3,605,984 votes. In total, whitehouse.gov got approximately 1 million visits during the 48 hour open voting period.
what is the killer app that has been developed on that platform?
the fees google gets from apps that go over 5m page views per month.
lol
Are you going to be there Michael ???
Hell yea
Well Money Wise, I think Buddy Poke is doing pretty good.
I love Google App Engine. It makes casual programming a reality. I can go from idea to deployed app in a weekend, for free (for me at least).
People often complain about GAE’s lack of flexibility. What they gloss over is that GAE requires ZERO server configuration.
They also complain about being stuck with Google. Well I’d like to see any other company come out with a competing service. GAE is superb.
Competing service: Salesforce.com. Been around oh, for a while. I’m not advocating for it, just saying GAE is not new. I’m happy that GAE offers a new platform for app building, and I’m excited to see it grow and evolve.
(he ducks, for fear of being wrong at worst, or pedantic at best…)
“Google says they eat they’re own dogfood…”
I think that should be a “their”, and not a “they’re”, right?
damnit to hell i always do that. always.
fixed. thx.
love it – makes me feel better
thank you for keeping me informed and entertained!
Mike,
According to Upcoming and Meetup, the Campfire is on Wednesday.
http://upcoming.../event/1908018/
I hope Java for App Engine is the big announcment tonight.
python is so much better than java. No need for java gae, imho.
i want ror
I it will be interesting of the addition of Java will spur a significant growth jump and possibly even attract enterprise type app developers.
It may also spur development for Android. AFAIK Android apps are programmed in Java.
Why no cake? I made one for Google Analytics and it wasn’t even their birthday!
http://www.imbi...dashboard-cake/
I guess a fuselage-less airliner with a hat will do. Lovely
But why until now we don’t see support for:
php, java etc’???
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http://my-iphon...zz.blogspot.com
GAE rocks
While GAE barely supports python’s most popular web framework (django), Amazon’s EC2 is exploding in growth and is being used as a serious tool for companies. It might even start generating noticeable revenues at Amazon.
The list of features of EC2 keeps getting more and more impressive — Elastic MapReduce, Reserved Instances, European data centers. Google, on the other hand, spent several months getting Java to work.
I think Google missed the boat on this one.
Congrat Google App Engine !! but when support for PHP. The developers are waiting.
Joyent should do that.
Google App Engine did a great job in this year.
Hope it will be able to compete with amazon s3 in the coming future.
Well, we tried app engine multiple times but it lacks the kind of support needed by newbies. Morever the Gql kind of sucks, yes i literally mean GQL sucks. Anyways Happy Birthday App engine.
And it’s not just great for actual apps. Matt Riggott wrote a great tutorial on 24ways.org (http://24ways.o...as-your-own-cdn) that tells you how to use GAE as a CDN. Not very useful for huge sites, but a pretty good option for smaller sites.