Google first announced its App Engine technology in 2008. The Internet's search superstar will host your Web application (webapp) on its infrastructure, initially at no charge. Only when your webapp ...

I've got an app engine app that compares values which are scrapped hourly and I'm running into high CPU usage. I'm doing a lot of calculation on the page request so I think I'm not approaching it the ...

Our live coverage of the Google App Engine launch event is here (Update: we’ve built and launched a test application here). Google isn’t just talking about hosting applications in the cloud any more.

Google’s App Engine hosted development environment now lets applications exchange instant messages with networks based on the XMPP open standard. The support for XMPP (Extensible Messaging and ...

Google’s Cloud Platform is slowly becoming ay fully featured environment for running complex web apps, but it’s not easy to just give it a quick try. To get started with Cloud Platform, after all, you ...

The cloud-computing foundation is growing more mature: those wanting to use it to house Web applications can pay to get more capacity. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

Python’s convenience and versatility mean that it’s used to build software in nearly every walk of IT life. One major niche is web services, where Python’s speed of development and flexible metaphors ...