Now you have the power of Google: App Engine

Wasn’t it your dream years ago to have access to BigTable and GFS (Google File System) from Google and not worry about your scaling problem? From tonight, you can.

I am not going to introduce all the features it has. You can watch tonight’s Campfire One video which introduces the whole lot of Google App Engine features.

(video urls via Socbleizer)

Is Stepcase going to use it? Probably not yet, because currently it supports Python only. But once it supports Ruby we may consider to deploy some of our Rails apps to there.

It is pretty easy to use though. It already has a nice little SDK with deployment tool and a testing server. Here is a quick way to test the app engine. Once you have an account and created an app, go ahead and create a new directory locally to keep these two files: app.yaml and hello.py.

Once this is done, go ahead and use SDK’s dev_appserver.py to test your app:

You can now access your app at http://localhost:8080/

Once you think Hello world app is good enough for your enterprise customers, deploy it:

Go to your assigned URL, in my case, http://demo.appspot.com/

Now, I can’t wait to see millions of visitors who come this hello world app and watch it scales!