The History Of The Google App Engine

Published Date: 02 Nov 2017

There are a number of cloud providers nowadays in the market, although the giant names in the computer world still own the cloud computing market. In this topic we will take a deep look at these big names of the cloud computing such as, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Salesforce.com, IBM and others. We will also discuss about what they provide, and how they could profit you in your business.

According to the table 1, Gray’s cost of 2003 to 2008 [a], showing us the idea how the rate of change of technologies for Cloud Computing for last 10 years. While the costs have dramatically improved in 10 years, the opportunity to use the improved of performance in cheaper price and better quality is significantly increased.

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Table 1: We update Gray’s costs of computing resources from 2003 to 2008

Google

Without a doubt, Google certainly steps into the cloud. They also offer tools to persuade customers to their cloud services.

Google App Engine

"Google App Engine enables developers to build web apps on the same scalable systems that powers Google’s own application" – Google

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Development the application on Google App Engine (GAE) is similar to developing general web application which is developed by Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Google also provide the Software Development Kit (SDK) which is included useful libraries for Application Program Interface (API) from GAE. Development Server is also provided in GAE which will help decreasing the development time because it doesn’t need to upload to the GAE before testing the application.

Cost

Google persuaded developers by offering the GAE for free when it launched, although after a few months developers using the GAE can expect to pay:

Free quota to get started: 500MB storage and enough CPU and bandwidth for about 5 million pageviews per month

$0.10–$0.12 per CPU core-hour

$0.15–$0.18 per GB-month of storage

$0.11–$0.13 per GB of outgoing bandwidth

$0.09–$0.11 per GB of incoming bandwidth

In response to developer feedback, Google App Engine will provide new APIs. The image-manipulation API enables developers to scale, rotate, and crop images on the server. The memcache API is a high-performance caching layer designed to make page rendering faster for developers.

Force.com and Google

Salesforce.com is being an alliance with Google with availability of Force.com for Google App Engine. Force.com lets developers create an application which compatible on both salesforce.com and Google’s cloud computing platforms. This collaboration will pull the key features of both.

"We have an open vision for cloud computing," said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, Salesforce.com. "Developers now can take advantage of the easy to use and rapidly scalable cloud computing infrastructures from Google and Salesforce.com to build and deliver powerful business applications."

Force.com for Google App Engine supplies tools and services to support the creation of web and business applications and delivered in the cloud. Rather of maintaining and servicing their own server or client infrastructure developers can employ cloud from Google and Salesforce.com to create, operate and deliver new applications on the web. These applications developed on Google App Engine are easy to create, easy to control and easy grow by traffic and data storage. Moreover, Google App Engine provides a community and libraries for developer to communicate, discuss and brainstorm about web applications.

More than 5000 Salesforce.com customers are employing Google Apps, and more than 10000 are employing Salesforce for Google AdWords. Also, half of top ten most popular applications and Force.com AppExchange market place come from Google related partners.

Salesforce.com

Salesforce.com is one of the enterprise cloud computing leader. Their flagships are sales and CRM applications. The company has now brought in Force.com, an integrated set of tools and application services that both software vendors and corporate IT departments can use create application and run it on the same infrastructure that delivers the Salesforce CRM applications. Nowadays, Salesforce’s main areas are:

The Sales Cloud – cloud computing sales application

The Service Cloud – the customer service which brings the companies into the Salesforce’s treatment no matter where customers take place

Your Cloud – the powerful capabilities to develop personalized applications on cloud computing platform which is Force.com

From the very beginning, developers used Force.com to create add-ons to the Salesforce CRM, although it is viable to develop applications which are not associated to Salesforce.com offerings’. For example, well-known gaming company Electronic Arts built an employee-recruiting application on Force.com and a software company Coda made general accounting application. However, Salesforce.com promotes their own applications that area used more than one-million people.

Force.com

Force.com is Salesforce.com’s on-demand cloud computing. It builds Visualforce technology, which makes it’s easy for an end customer and developer to create any kind of cloud application for a wide range of purposes. Visualforce is basically a framework for building interface designs, which can be built and delivered with no software or hardware requirements.

Visualforce

Visualforce is a part of the Force.com platform, which provides the capable to design application user interfaces. It uses AJAX, HTML and Flex for business applications. Visualforce provides a page-based model built on standard HTML technologies.

Salesforce.com CRM