Google Apps Engine

Last night I went to a TCJUG presentation on the Google Apps Engine. The speaker was Brad Charan from Wells Fargo.


Very interesting stuff. It looks like they give you a somewhat crippled Servlet container, plus access to their database called Big Table, an asynchronous task list, cron, and a bunch of admin tools. Of course, there's an Eclipse plugin for the SDK.


I'm not sure I'd want to build a really big system on it, but if you want to get an app out the door, boy this would be a nice solution.


There's an Android app I've always wanted to write which would require a server-side to sync data, and this would be the perfect solution.


I'll post more on it, when I get around to trying it out a little.