Google App Engine refers to you run web application on google's infrastructure. App engine application are easy to build, easy to maintain, and easy to scale as your traffic and data storage needs grow. With App engine, there is no need of servers o maintain because you just upload or attach your application and it is ready to serve your users.You can serve your app from your own domain name like http://www.gmail.com
Google app support apps written in various programming language. Google app engine also provide a Go run time environment that runs natively compiled Go code. These runtime environments are built to ensure that your application runs quickly, securely, and without interfering from other apps on the system.
Feature -
- enable shortcuts in gmail for faster use
- add event to google calendar via sms
- whiteboard collaborating with google drawings
- turn PDF's into editable text
- view your calendar events in multiple time zones
Reason for using Google App Engine -
- easy to get started - with app engine you can write your application code you can test it on your local machine an upload it to google with a simple click of a button or command line script.
- automatic scalability - it means first time your application can take benefits of the same scalable technologies that google application are built on, things like big table, reduce map.
- the reliability, performance and security of google infrastructure - google has a status for high reliability, high performance infrastructure. we take security very seriously and have measures in place to protect your code and application data.