Google App Engine

Google just unveiled Google App Engine (GAE), an integrated hosting solution for web application developers to host their applications. As a developer, this looks promising. By taking care of the infrastructure, GAE will allow developers to quickly get an application up and running and to exclusively focus on developing the application.

For now, account registrations are limited to the first 10,000 developers, and applications are restricted to the free account limits.

I happen to be one of the few 10,000 that got an account. So in the next couple of days, I will begin to experiment with GAE and see what it is capable of. Since one can currently only develop for GAE with Python, I now have an excuse to go and learn some Python.