A very simple but useful application that can benefit from App Engine scalability is a URL shortening service. Last year, I built http://ru.ly on App Engine making use of sharded-counters and Big Table. The recent proliferation of URL shortening sites can be attributed to the growing popularity of Twitter.
Robin On Apr 11, 2:48 pm, Peter Cooper <petercoo...@pgctesting001.com> wrote: > Google has provided an extensive set of example code using calendar, > contacts, mail, site, authentication, and gadgets, powered by Python and > GAE. Depending on the specific focus of your thesis, cloud computing means > getting any available information from any source, independent of platform. > I would generate web pages that offered a selection of RSS feeds, gadgets, > mail calendar, and contact functions which reflected cloud computing, in the > context of GAE. You have all the fundamental pieces, just put the web pages > together which use URLs to get to the individual pieces. Pick a topic, eg > recession, and show how GAE can build documents, feeds, mail, meetings, and > gadgets around this topic. > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Daniel F. Pigatto <dhann...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > I'm Brazilian and I'm starting to use Google App Engine right now. > > > I'm a student of Computing and my thesis will be about Cloud Computing. A > > good example of that new technology is the GAE, of course. I want to create > > a simple application on GAE in order to use it as example in my thesis. I'm > > learning Python and I think it won't be difficult, because my application > > can be very simple. > > > Is there someone who could give me an idea of application to develop? > > > Thanks and sorry because my English is not so good yet. > > > -- > > Daniel --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
