{"id":1100,"date":"2008-04-08T08:30:31","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T14:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2008-04-08T08:30:31","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T14:30:31","slug":"google_unlocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=1100","title":{"rendered":"Google unlocks its data centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The clouds open and . . . the face of Google appears. As long anticipated, Google is now allowing outside developers to write applications that will run on its vast network of data centers. The company&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/googleappengine.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/introducing-google-app-engine-our-new.html\">App Engine<\/a>, now in a closed beta, provides a new cloud-based development platform that will compete with, and perhaps complement, the platforms run by Amazon Web Services, Salesforce.com, and others.<\/p>\n<p>As it happens, I&#8217;m about to give a talk about the new cloud platforms, so I don&#8217;t have time to write more at the moment. But you&#8217;ll find more details from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/google_cloud_control.php\">Richard MacManus<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/archives\/2008\/04\/app-engine-host-your-python-apps-with-google.html\">Brady Forrest<\/a> (or you can go to TechMeme and enjoy the full force of the firehose).<\/p>\n<p>Where&#8217;s Microsoft?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The clouds open and . . . the face of Google appears. As long anticipated, Google is now allowing outside developers to write applications that will run on its vast network of data centers. The company&#8217;s App Engine, now in a closed beta, provides a new cloud-based development platform that will compete with, and perhaps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}