Node.js on Google App Engine goes beta
We're excited to announce that the Node.js runtime on Google App Engine is going beta. Node.js makes it easy for developers to build performant web applications and mobile backends with JavaScript. ...
Security researchers publish Google App Engine exploits 3 weeks after private disclosure to company with no response; Google now says it's mitigating the issues
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Security researchers publish Google App Engine exploits 3 weeks after private disclosure to company with no response; Google now says it's mitigating the issues
Researcher turns tables, discloses unpatched bugs in Google cloud platform — Bugs give hackers beachhead to attack Google App Engine, run malicious code.
Google brings Mobile Backend Starter, its one-click deployable cloud backend for Android, to iOS
Google today launched Mobile Backend Starter for iOS, simplifying server-side development for app developers on Apple's mobile platform. Mobile Backend Starter is a Google App Engine application …
Bad day for the cloud: Dropbox and Google App Engine experiencing outages
Dropbox and Google App Engine are both experiencing outages today. At the time of writing it's unclear how the two downtimes are related. — Dropbox is giving the following error:
Windows Azure beats Amazon EC2, Google App Engine in cloud speed test
Microsoft's Windows Azure has beaten all competitors in a year's worth of cloud speed tests, coming out ahead of Amazon EC2, Google App Engine, Rackspace and a dozen others. — The independent tests ...
Google upgrades its cloud platform
InfoWorld - Google will upgrade on Thursday its Google App Engine cloud platform and its software development kit, adding capabilities for real-time communications and increased data replication. — ...
Seriously this time, the new language on App Engine: Java™
Today, we're very excited to announce the availability of a new programming language for Google App Engine. Please welcome the Java runtime! — When the two of us first heard the promise of Google A...
Google App Engine 1.1.9 boosts capacity and compatibility
Google App Engine released hosted platform version 1.1.9 earlier this week with big boosts in capacity and compatibility. The new App Engine supports standard HTTP libraries, larger files, triples th...
Google App Engine “Accidentally” Blocks PayPal
Here's one for the conspiracy theorists: It turns out that Google App Engine, their new platform for building and hosting third party web applications, is blocking applications from integrating with P...