Google在2004年收購Picasa以擴充Blogger的功能,更在2006年以16.5億美元的天價併購YouTube,與其花大錢併購市場上熱門的網路服務,不如開放自家的雲端運算服務平台吸引各家好手前來開發下一個熱門的網路服務,在這樣的前提之下,Google開發並開放了Google App Engine平台。在這篇文章中,我們將對Google App Engine所提供的功能與支援的開發工具做簡單的介紹。文中並將對搭建Google App Engine背後的雲端運算服務平台所包含的技術做進一步的說明。
Google bought Picasa to extend the function of Google Blogger in 2004. And then it spent 1.65 billion dollars to buy YouTube in 2006. Google now would rather release their own cloud computing service platform to appeal to developers to build the next popular network service, than spend huge money to buy popular network services on the market. That's the reason why Google App Engine is released. This paper presents a brief introduction to the function and supported development tools of Google App Engine. In addition, the key technologies of the cloud computing service platform of Google App Engine are also introduced in this paper.