Reviews on Google's App Engine from Software Pioneers

There is a round of buzz going on with Google's latest application for software developers. It has been named "Google App Engine" and it provides a platform to the developers in running their web applications.

After this development, the software pioneers have started analyzing it. There will be an environment of reviews and feedbacks for this latest technology innovation from Google.

Dave Wineris one of the software pioneer, knows about disruptive technology. Here is a small para what Dave had to say about google App Engine,

"Now, what Google announced is really exciting! I'm not kidding. It's even better than I hoped. Yes, it's only Python, but IBM's PC-DOS was only BASIC and Pascal when it first came out, and it didn't matter. Yeah, I preferred C, but I coded in Pascal because that's what you had to do to get an app running. What you're going to see here that you've never seen before is shrinkwrap net apps that scale that can be deployed by civillians. That's a mouthful, but that's what's coming. Why? Because here is a standardized platform that can be stamped out in the billions of units. Maybe Google can't do it, but the perception is that they can. Who is willing to stand up and say Google hasn't nailed scaling? What PCs did in the 80s, Google is doing now. PCs took the black magic out of owning a computer. Now Google is taking the black magic out of operating a scalable web app. Python is the new BASIC. "

According to Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWrite :

"The point is, Google App Engine may be neither competitive nor monopolistic - it might just be trivial as Google Pages or Google Base. So far it seems pretty simple and useful, though. We'll have to take a deep breath, hope that Amazon and others step up their offerings a notch or two in response, and see what the future brings.


However, the applications developed by Google have been well accepted by the various industries till now. No matter what stir the responses would create but the software professionals are sure to get help from Google's App Engine.

Google New Application for Developers - Google App Engine

Google has launched a new application for software called Google App Engine. Here developers can run their web applications with the help of google's infrasture. It is as similar to that blogger made it easy to creat a blog. Google app engine is designed ti naje ut east ti create and run web application.


With the help of Google App Engine, developers can write web applications based on the same building blocks that Google uses, like GFS and Bigtable. Google App Engine packages those building blocks and provides access to scalable infrastructure, hope it will make it easier for developers to scale their applications automatically as they grow. Wih the help Google App Engine, software professional can spend less time dealing with system administration and maintenance, and more time building and improving their applications.

Google App Engine is free to use during the preview release, but the amount of computing resources any app can use is limited. Later, developers will be able to purchase additional computing resources as needed, but Google App Engine is free to get started.

To know more about google app engine click here

This preview of Google App Engine is available for the first 10,000 developers who sign up. so developer sign up download the SDK

Google Services: For whatever you Search under the Sun

One name which is like a religion for the Internet is Google, without any doubt. If you are a regular Google user you must have seen many features of it. Google services include all its products under three broad categories.

1. Desktop Products
2. Mobile products
3. Online products

If we would count all these products the list would go very long. There are more than 100 Google products under these three categories. These all products are either a gold release, in beta development or a part of the Google lab initiative.

Now, gold release is the final version of a particular product, beta development is the first version released outside the organization for the purpose of evaluation and Google lab initiative is some new Google project that is not ready for prime time and which serves as a testing ground for new services being developed.

Here are some of the major products in each category…

Desktop products: Earth, Hello, Pack, Gmail/Google Notifier, Picasa, Talk, Video Player, web Accelerator, Blogger Web Comments, Browser Sync, Send to phone, Toolbar and other products.

Mobile Products: iGoogle, Mobile search, Calendar, Gmail, Google notebook, Reader, Picasa Web Albums, Google mobilizer, Gmail mobile, Maps mobile, YouTube and other products.

Online products or web products: Under this category there may be some sub-categories.

Advertising products: AdSense, AdWord, AdWord website optimizer, Audio Ads, Click- to- Call, TV ads etc.

Communication & Publishing: 3D Warehouse, Blogger, Docs, Calendar, FeedBurner, Dodgeball, Gmail, Notebook, Orkut, Page Creator, YouTube etc.

Development: Google Web Toolkit, Code, Android, OpenSocial etc.

Mapping: Maps, Mars, Moon, Ride Finder and transit.

Search: Accessible search, Alerts, Base, Book search, Directory, Finance, Groups, Patent search, Product search, Scholar, Video, Web Search etc

Statistics: Analytics, Gapminder, trends etc.

Hardware products: Google search appliance and Google mini.

Other products: GOOG-411 or Google Voice Local Search.

So, I hope that you would have got an idea about various Google products. One thing I want to say that as far as innovation is concerned, Google has achieved a dynamic success.