App Engine Changes
December 18, 2008
For the fans of Google’s App Engine, Googzilla made several important announcements on December 16, 2008. Dashboards are a big deal in some organizations. The data can be wacky, but the users love the notion of a bird’s-eye view of what’s hot and what’s needed to win the organizational battles. Google is taking a dashboard baby step, and it will be followed by dashboard big steps. First, Google rolled out an App Engine System Status Site that monitors the latency and uptime of various components and provides real-time visibility into their performance. Good news for administrators, and the dashboard will whip up demand among rank and file users when these folks learn about the system. Google also delivered a Quota Details Dashboard, detailing the resource quotas that affect a Google App engine application. Finally, the company provided a “sneak peak” at upcoming billing feature, which will enable a developer to pay Google to use its services. Good news for the Google bean counter and probably not so good news for some Google App users who thought that Google offered everything for free. Ha ha. Click here to watch a video about the dashboard. A slightly different slant on the dashboard appeared in the Google Code blog here. You can track Google’s news in its Web logs as it happens via the free ArnoldIT.com Overflight service. To give it a try, click here. Oh, the search engine is provided by Exalead. The Google custom search engine lacks the metatagging and entity extraction features I find quite helpful. Watch for another Overflight service featuring a different search system in the near future. I am suffering Google fatigue, so a new content domain will become available.
Stephen Arnold, December 19, 2008
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