{"id":1101,"date":"2008-04-10T15:00:17","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/?p=1101"},"modified":"2008-04-10T15:00:17","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T13:00:17","slug":"googles-app-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/2008\/04\/googles-app-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"Googles app engine &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; is up and <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/appengine\/\">running<\/a>, there&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/googleappengine.blogspot.com\/\">blog<\/a>, and a <a href=\"hhttp:\/\/www.techmeme.com\/080408\/h0850\">wide array of reviews<\/a> even when it&#8217;s still in closed beta (got an invite? please &#8230;). Start with Salon Machinist: <a href=\"http:\/\/machinist.salon.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/08\/app_engine\/index.html\">Google App Engine lets non-Googlers tap into Googly cloud<\/a>, drop by Richard MacManus aka read\/write web: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/google_cloud_control.php\">Cloud control to Major Tom<\/a> and see O&#8217;Reillys Brady Forrest&#8217; take: <a href=\"http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/archives\/2008\/04\/app-engine-host-your-python-apps-with-google.html\">App Engine: Host Your Apps with Google<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Richard makes it clear that everyone should be aware that developing with and for this platform has the potential downside of lock-in: &#8220;would you want Google to control your entire end-to-end development environment?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hmm, that&#8217;s the problem when you ain&#8217;t got standardized and open <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/index.php\/archive\/tag\/api\/\">APIs<\/a>, if the platform is open you can leave if you want or need. Now, using Google-specific libraries looks somehow like choosing lock-in from the start &#8211; even when the offer is tempting (small wonder, Google is leveraging their <span id=\"comment-51260\" class=\"comment\">massive scale computing facilities<\/span>) <span id=\"comment-51261\" class=\"comment\">applications may not be portable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"comment-51261\" class=\"comment\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this is possibly no competition to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/index.php\/archive\/amazons-services-and-business-model-innovations\/\">Amazons services<\/a> like <a href=\"http:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/s3\">S3<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/ec2\">EC2<\/a> but a different kind of (business model) game?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; is up and running, there&#8217;s a blog, and a wide array of reviews even when it&#8217;s still in closed beta (got an invite? please &#8230;). Start with Salon Machinist: Google App Engine lets non-Googlers tap into Googly cloud, drop by Richard MacManus aka read\/write web: Cloud control to Major Tom and see O&#8217;Reillys Brady [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,11,4,8],"tags":[459,15,165,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}