ISVs connect Google App Engine to Amazon's computing cloud and other online app platforms.
It hasn’t taken long for some developers to extend Google App Engine to Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud and beyond.
Google announced its cloud computing solution for developers April 7
and gave out an initial 10,000 accounts to developers for this
service. The company then gave out another 10,000 accounts over the
course of the week due to demand.
Meanwhile, to help people develop locally—and if they didn't get one
of the 20,000 accounts—Google made its Development Web Server, also
known as "Dev Web Server," available. The Google App Engine SDK
(software development kit) includes a Web server application for
developing and testing App Engine applications. The Web server
reproduces the App Engine Python run-time environment, including
sandbox restrictions, and emulates the App Engine services such as the
data store.
As Patrick Kerpan, chief technology officer of Chicago-based Cohesive Flexible Technologies,
one of the companies extending Google App Engine, put it: "Dev Web
Server is something you can use to develop applications for deploying
to the Google cloud—Google App Engine—if you have an account, or
friend, or when it opens up for general use. Dev Web Server doesn't
provide all the services of the Google cloud but has some
'stubs'—proper API calls that go to a flat file rather than the real
cloud database, for example."
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