exploring Google App Engine

Started to explore the Google App Engine, a cloud computing platform that enables developers to plug into the Google platform and services. It supports Python and Java (with some limitations) Web app frameworks.

Here are some links that I found useful to begin with:

• FAQ
• Getting Started Guide
• Developer's Guide

Many books already available for this topic:

• O'Reilly: Programming Google App Engine (Nov 2009), Using Google App Engine (May 2009)
• Apress: Developing with Google App Engine (Feb 2009), Beginning Java Google App Engine (Dec 2009)

It is a pity that PHP is not supported so far, but people have found ways to get around it by using a pure Java implementation of the PHP called Quercus.