I read this article on Cloud Hosting today and some things I read really bothered me. I haven’t actually browsed technorati in a long time (maybe 2006?) and things seem to have changed dramatically. Technorati is now hosting content (blog postings). Maybe I was aware of this at point but forgot about it… but I [...]
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Amazon has just released their latest addition to the cloud offerings: EBS or “Elastic Block Store”. The pricing looks very reasonable at 10 cents per Gigabyte, and 10 cents for every millionth I/O operation. It also comes with some juicy features like the ability to create a snapshot to S3 at any point in time, [...]
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Jollat is a cross platform too (Windows, Mac, OS X) to manage Amazon’s EC2 and S3 services. There is a video demonstrating the tool on youtube
The S3 manage allows you to create US or EU buckets and drag and drop stuff from your desktop. The EC2 component comes with an AMI browser and built in [...]
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I’m following the “Best Practices – Building a Production Quality Application on Google App Engine” session at Google IO. Ken Ashcraft is giving this presentation.
movie = Movie()
movie.title = self.request.get(‘title’, None)
movie.director = self.request.get(‘director’, None)
movie.put()
Possible Errors:
Out of Memory
Deadline Exceeded
OverQuotaError
Server Crash
DataStore Crash
Indentical Entity Already Exists
Use logging module: logging.error, logging.debug — which shows up in Admin Console
This is called [...]
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It is currently possible to associate multiple URLs with your App Engine instance. However, the administration interface doesn’t permit configuring any redirects.
However, the Administration interface doesn’t allow you to configure any redirects, which could lead to major search engines associating your domains with duplicate content.
I’m going to cover how I enabled canonical redirects in [...]
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Josh Nichols wrote a article describing his experiences playing with Heroku and this got me thinking about Heroku vs App Engine — I had mentioned in my April 8th post (“App Engine and Django For the Win“) that it would be interested to see how the competitors played out (Heroku, AWS vs App Engine)
It will [...]
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Just stumbled across Bloog a blog written in Python on Google’s App Engine. The code is open source, released under the MIT license and currently hosted by GitHub: here
It will be interesting to watch the number of open source app-engine centric applications blossom — a blogging tool is a good first step.
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Thanks to Marzia Niccolai from the App Engine Team for posting these on the App Engine Blog. I’m in two of them!!! Internet famous at last — especially now that CNET is getting bought my CBS — this is just the beginning of my media career — just wait and see.
http://picasaweb.google.com/appengine.hackathon/SanFranciscoHackAThon
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The Amazon web services blog has a link to a new eclipse based product that makes it easier to manage common Amazon AWS tasks (launching instances, creating security zones, assigning elastic IPs)
You can download Cloud Studio or watch an introductory flash video at service-cloud
I think it’s great that people are jumping in and creating solutions [...]
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Gawsh is the Google App Engine Web Service Helper (mini framework).
Also featured at the Google Apps Hackathon in San Francisco
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Mirrorrr is a cool App Engine example — type in a URL and it will fetch and mirror any page.
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Just arrived at 345 Spear St (4th floor, aka the Google floor) for the San Francisco App Engine Hackathon. I’m going to make a best effort at updating this throughout the day, and a more concerted effort to reconcile my notes at the end of the day.
More updates soon, things are starting to roll.
10:03: Google [...]
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