This document discusses Google App Engine and whether developers should use it. It provides an overview of cloud computing, describes the benefits of using Google App Engine such as scalability and managed infrastructure. It also covers some limitations like quotas and restrictions. The document recommends Google App Engine for its programming languages and distributed storage capabilities but notes there are also some "dark clouds" or limitations developers should be aware of.

1. Google App Engine Should you or should you not? - Ashwin Prabhu

2. What is Cloud computing ? The Larry Ellison view

3. What is Cloud computing ? The hype machine

4. What is Cloud computing ? The Richard Stallman view

5. Cloud Computing Landscape

6. Should you or should you not? Kitna deti hai?

7. Why Google App Engine ? Managing everything yourself is hard DIY hosting for web application = Hidden costs and risks Wouldn’t it be nice if somebody else managed all the risks for you? What if there were a out-of-the-box solution? What if you could run your app on Google's huge infrastructure, alongside Gmail, GDocs? What if you get the services of Google’s CDN for “free”?

8. Scalable from day 0 President Obama's Google Moderator stats Why Google App Engine ?

9. What is Google App Engine ? Languages supported

10. Google App Engine Features

11. Lunch is free, Buffet is not! Quotas and Restrictions

12. Now you can have versions of your application! Versioning need not be limited to code, not anymore. Continuous Deployment

14. The dark clouds Unless you take a closer look! You have the entire JVM accompanied by a distributed database on the “cloud”. What more could one cask for?

15. The dark clouds

16. Suggested reading http:// stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/google -app-engine http:// code.google.com/appengine/docs / Dan Sanderson

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