AppScale, an OpenSource GAE implementation

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 Santa Barbara. AppScale enables execution of GAE applications on virtualized cluster systems. In particular, AppScale enables users to execute GAE applications using their own clusters with greater scalability and reliability than the GAE SDK provides. Moreover, AppScale executes automatically and transparently over cloud infrastructures such as the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Eucalyptus, the open-source implementation of the AWS interfaces.

The list of supported infrastructures is very impressive. However the key, in my personal opinion, would be stability and compatibility with current GAE APIs.

Learn more about AppScale:

  1. AppScale Home page
  2. Google Code page
  3. Google Group for AppScale
  4. Demo at Bay area GAE Developers meeting: At Googleplex ( Feb 10, 2010)

Comments

Ĺeif said…
This would make me a lot more comfortable using Google Appengine, if I know I can move it somewhere else if I have to.

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