TECHCRUNCH
HENRY WORK
8 APRIL 08
Last night, Google announced App Engine, a hosted web application platform. We’ve now tested the service directly by writing and deploying a test application called appengine.crunchbase.com
—a HotorNot popularity contest for startups. Our experience with building and launching an app is below.
Google promises developers two things with App Engine: to reduce the time from writing code to deploying it on a web server, and to leverage Google’s massive infrastructure. We decided write a simple app on the platform, deploy it, and get some traffic to really see how easy App Engine is.
