Google App Engine

Entre todo el conjunto de herramientas que ha desarrollado Google, ahora están liberando en versión "Preview" el Google App Engine. El Google App Engine es un conjunto de herramientas que permite ejecutar aplicaciones web bajo la infraestructura de Google. Existe en el site oficial todo lo necesario para hacer la implmentación así como ejemplos.

Lo necesario para correr este tipo de applicaciones:

• No es necesario montar nada. Google App Engine tiene un ambiente de applicación integrado.
• Es facil de escalar. En Google App Engine es sencillo construir aplicaciones que sean escalables y puedan crecer hasta contar con millones de usuarios.
• Es de libre acceso. Cada aplicaci'on en Google App Engine puede usar hasta 500 MB de almacenamiento y suficiente anocho de banda y CPU para tener 5 millones de visitas en un mes.
  

El primer post en el blog que han creado para tal efecto:

Introducing Google App Engine + our new blog
from Google App Engine Blog by Karen
Posted by Paul McDonald, Product Manager

At tonight's Campfire One we launched a preview release of Google App Engine -- a developer tool that enables you to run your web applications on Google's infrastructure. The goal is to make it easy to get started with a new web app, and then make it easy to scale when that app reaches the point where it's receiving significant traffic and has millions of users.

Google App Engine gives you access to the same building blocks that Google uses for its own applications, making it easier to build an application that runs reliably, even under heavy load and with large amounts of data. The development environment includes the following features:

* Dynamic webserving, with full support of common web technologies
* Persistent storage (powered by Bigtable and GFS with queries, sorting, and transactions)
* Automatic scaling and load balancing
* Google APIs for authenticating users and sending email
* Fully featured local development environment

Google App Engine packages these building blocks and takes care of the infrastructure stack, leaving you more time to focus on writing code and improving your application.

Today's launch is a preview release -- we're by no means feature-complete, and we're giving you early access because we really want your feedback. This preview of Google App Engine is available for the first 10,000 developers who sign up, and we plan to increase that number in near future.

During this preview period, applications are limited to 500MB of storage, 200M megacycles of CPU per day, and 10GB bandwidth per day. We expect most applications will be able to serve around 5 million pageviews per month. In the future, these limited quotas will remain free, and developers will be able to purchase additional resources as needed.

If you'd like to try it out, sign up for access to the preview release and then download the SDK to get started. The best place to give us feedback is in the discussion group. Future announcements from us will appear there and/or this blog.

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Google Sites

El día de hoy me he encontrado con esta nuev apliación de Google -> Google Sites. Ya hice una prueba y se ve bastante bien. Te permite crear un sitio con Edicion de documentos, presentaciones videos de Google y de YouTube, etc, etc.

Bastante amigable como todas las aplicaciones de Google, aquí les dejo una reseña de lo que contiene:

Google Sites, a new offering from Google Apps, makes creating a team site as easy as editing a document. Use Google Sites to centralize all types of information -- from videos to presentations -- and share your site with just a few people, your entire organization, or the world.

Anyone can do itBuilding a site is as simple as editing a document, and you don't need anyone's help to get started.

One-stop sharingCreate a single place to bring together all the information your team needs to share, including docs, videos, photos, calendars and attachments.

Work togetherInvite co-workers, classmates, or your entire organization to edit your site with you to keep it fresh and up-to-date. And let as many or few people view your site as you want.

Lo que no me gustó, es la necesidad de tener un e-mail de un dominio NO gratuito, es decir no lo puedes crear con tu cuenta de GMAIL, YAHOO, HOTMAIL, etc, al menos yo traté con estas tres.