About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: GEGL, Jini, Google App Engine, IronRuby, WorldWide Telescope, Cosmos, Da Vinci Machine, BVE Trainsim, Tamarin, XMMS2, BlogTV, Google Pack, SharpOS, MySpaceIM, RockMelt, OCRopus, MacRuby, Avant Window Navigator, Seashore, Google Code Search, SONAR, Naval Observatory Vector Astrometry Subroutines, Parser Grammar Engine, Rubinius, FAROO, LTTng, Yahoo! Calendar, Google Base, Snapfish Lab, Alchemy, Nevrocode Docs, Google Voice Search, IWork.com, Adobe Flash Catalyst, MetaTracker, Ezycom, Fprint, Apache XAP, Switzerland, Microsoft Live Labs Volta, Vertebra, AT&T Pogo, IronScheme, MagLev, Apache ODE, Obelisk SRC, Fizzik, Open CIL JIT, Double Commander, Dekoh Desktop, Google Insights for Search, IL2CPU, SharpOS AOT. Excerpt: Google App Engine (often referred to as GAE or simply App Engine, and also used by the acronym GAE/J) is a cloud computing platform for developing and hosting web applications in Google-managed data centers. It was first released as a beta version in April 2008. Google App Engine is Platform as a Service technology. It virtualizes applications across multiple servers. Google App Engine is free up to a certain level of used resources. Fees are charged for additional storage, bandwidth, or CPU cycles required by the application. Currently, the supported programming languages are Python, Java, and Go (and, by extension, other JVM languages such as Groovy, JRuby, Scala, Clojure, Jython and PHP via a special version of Quercus) . Python web frameworks that run on Google App Engine include GAE framework, Django, CherryPy, Pylons, Flask, web2py and webapp2, as well as a custom Google-written webapp framework and several others designed specifically for the platform that emerged since the release. Google has said that it plans to support more languages in the future, and that the Google App Engine has been writ...
