Google- App Hosting Platform

April 9, 2008

Google yesterday took the wraps off a new hosted software platform offering developers access to Google's scalable infrastructure.

The company's App Engine service -- which will be offered free to developers during a preview period -- includes a software development kit, enabling developers to write Web applications and upload them to the company's servers for hosting.

Also through the service, which Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) unveiled yesterday during its Campfire One developer event, application developers will have access to persistent storage technologies such as the Google File System (GFS) and Bigtable, a distributed storage system for unstructured data.

"With Google App Engine, developers can write Web applications based on the same building blocks that Google uses," Kevin Gibbs, Google's technical lead for the project, wrote in a company blog. "Google App Engine packages those building blocks and provides access to scalable infrastructure that we hope will make it easier for developers to scale their applications automatically as they grow."...

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