Hot topic of the day? Google App Engine…
It’s a hosted environment that allows you to run Python driven applications within Google’s hardware… You already put your entire digital life into Google, your thoughts (blog), desires (search), and conversations (email)… why not your code and new website?
Test it out! Hit the site and download the sdk… includes a runtime and APIs for all of Google’s services and features for the App Engine, including a persistence layer (Bigtable and GFS)…
The killer feature right now? Is that you can host up to a 5,000,000 hit per month website for free… not bad, not bad at all… The interesting tidbit is the app configuration where you specify the runtime. Can we say runtime = ruby?? Soon enough my friends, soon enough.
Right now I host all of my domain email on Google Apps, soon enough I’ll move my blog to a platform that allows me to host it for free but have control over it. (The day this blog hits 5,000,000 hits a month, is a day that it makes fiscal sense to host my own… right now it’s just a geek factor)
This does indeed sound very promising. Why they chose to start with Python is beyond me though. If they do begin to support Ruby, I’ll be all over it like what.