Lots of interesting updates today.
But would like to first mention the fantastic work Cloud computing group at UCSB are doing to make appengine framework more open. They have done significant work at making appscale “work” with different kinds of data sources including HBase, Cassandra, Voldemort, MongoDB, Hypertable and Mysql and MemcacheDB. Appscale is actively [...]

If you don’t like EC2 you have an option to move your app to a new vendor. But if you don’t like GAE  (Google app engine) there aren’t any solutions which can replace GAE easily.
AppScale might change that.
AppScale is an open-source implementation of the Google AppEngine (GAE) cloud computing interface from the RACELab at UC [...]

Last week I spent a few hours building a search engine testing tool called “BlackboxSET”. The purpose of the tool was to allow users to see search results from three different search providers and vote for the best set of results without knowing the source of the results. The hope was that the search engine [...]

I heard a great set of Google App engine datastore related talks at the google I/O conference. I think this is one of the best out talks I heard which is now on Youtube. You should watch it if you are working with or planning to work with Google App Engine in the near future. [...]