Google AppEngine: My other computer

Google's Cloud Technologies has been among one of the leading technologies ever introduced on the internet. Google has given businesses, schools and individuals to store an extract huge sum of data from their data farms with just a click of a button, or a complexity that is not in itself a burden on users.

That notwithstanding, they have likewise created a platform for developers to use the same technologies that power Google to create awesome applications which run in the cloud. Whats more, you get to store all these data in the cloud and forget about management of the application on the server.

With App Engine and the Google Cloud Platform applications, you have a new computer either than your physical computer. Hundreds of developers have and are using the power of he cloud platform applications to build more scalable applications which gives their application the power to do what they are suppose to do and also remove server management burden from the developers. The nicest thing about this is that you are not exempted from it.

Google App Engine which is a free part of the cloud platform technologies is so easy to use even for a beginner who just started programming in Java, Python, Go or PHP. To get started make sure you have a gmail account and follow this document.

The Google Developer Community at the University of Cape Coast, UCC, wish to also invite you for an event which climaxes their series of events around Google App Engine this year. Register for the event here or here. Very soon a brand new blog post series will also be started on this very topic. Keep reading.