Google App Engine - Backend

Features

• RAM: 128MB to 1GB

• CPU: 600MHz to 4.8GHz

• no request deadlines

• run indefinitely

• instance addressability

• resident or dynamic

• automatic restarts

Why?? ---Takes GAE past web apps --- you can now do "general cloud computing"

• high-performance servers

• in-memory caching

• self-driven programs

• N-tiered architectures

• heavyweight offline processing
  

Why? Memory Intensive Operations

• searching large sets of data

• gaming/modeling states

• your own caching

• video streams

• more+++
  
  

Why? CPU Intensive Operations

• image/video/graphics processing

• audio/video encoding

• game engines

• scientific computing

• meme generation