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Google hopes to house Web software on App Engine
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TechTeam on 09 April, 2008 10:47:00
 
Google plans to launch a service called App Engine Monday evening that the
company hopes will attract programmers and eventually companies needing an
expandable foundation for online applications.
App Engine, free to the first 10,000 people who sign up, offers a combination
of several online Google services for those who want a place to host software,
said Pete Koomen, a product manager on the Google developer team. Those include
the BigTable service for data storage and processing--as expected--along with
authentication to let people sign on to services and e-mail to let the system
handle communications, he said.
At an event called Campfire One Monday night, Google plans to show off some
internally developed Web applications written with the service. One of them lets
people sign up for carpools, joining the service, declaring whether and when
they want to drive or be driven, and then being matched to likely partners.
The company is pitching App Engine as an easy way for programmers to build
software without having to worry about rebuilding it once it gets too big for
its original hardware or software britches.
"We've seen cases where developers have had to rearchitect systems every six to
nine months because of the load of increasing traffic," Koomen said. Using
Google's App Engine sidesteps those issues by distributing software across
Google's own servers, automatically handling larger-scale use, he said.