Google recently released the Logs Reader API which allows programmatic access to App Engine logs. A quick perusal of the documentation showed its interface to be consistent with the continuation interface provided by Fantasm. As a proof of concept, we built the logcollector application that combines the Logs Reader...
Introduction At VendAsta we needed to migrate a number of applications from the Master/Slave datastore to the High-Replication datastore. This process is straightforward, and Google provides tools to facilitate it. However, there is no Google tool to migrate blobstore data between applications. This posting describes the approach developed and...
Data reliability is essential for any application. Applications running on Google App Engine have well-protected data out-of-the-box: Google provides redundant disks and data replication between data centres. One can rest quite assured that your data is safe from hardware failure. However, a final risk remains: you. If you, or...
Not only did we get published, but we got published by Google. You may have heard of them? If you haven’t, I’d be surprised you even knew how to get onto the internet to read this blog. Yesterday, a guest blog post written by our Chief Technical Officer, Jason...
I’m going to write this for dummies like me. More technically-adept readers should just go read this post by Jason Collins. For the last couple months there have been murmurs around the office that one of our developers, Kevin Pierce, was up to something pretty amazing. Those of us...
