Google App Engine overturned digit assemblage older today – they launched the service, which lets developers physique scheme applications on Google’s infrastructure, on Apr 7 2008.

And it has been a beatific year. Despite the fact that App Engine exclusive supports Python applications, 150,000 developers hit flocked to the service, says Google. They’ve launched 50,000 applications, and those apps create more than 100 meg regular pageviews. Look for Java, a such more favourite planning language, to come soon. Possibly modify this evening.

Google says they take their possess dogfood, too, and hit launched nearly 50 projects and diminutive products on App Engine, including Google Moderator and Labs for Google Apps.

Even President Obama has utilised (well, indirectly) App Engine, using Moderator to foregather questions for a virtual municipality hall meeting on whitehouse.gov. Google says that the place peaked at 700 hits per second, and 92,934 grouping submitted 104,073 questions and patch 3,605,984 votes. In total, whitehouse.gov got roughly 1 meg visits during the 48 distance unstoppered voting period.

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