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  • Google App Engine Load Test Result

    The result of the Google Web Toolkit on Google App Engine load test: The load was 10 reqs/sec for an hour, and 35 reqs/sec at peak. The result? No sweat.

  • Article: Intro to Google Charts and gchartrb

    Google Charts is a web service for generating charts. In this article, Matthew Bass explains the Google Charts interface and the gchartrb library which makes easy to create the Google Charts URLs from Ruby code.

  • Google App Engine public load test today

    Today, at 4PM GMT+2 (in about an hour), there is a public load test on the Google App Toolkit. Can Google Web Toolkit and Google App Engine handle the InfoQ effect?

  • What Social Networks Are Teaching Us About Data Portability

    As more social networking sites are popping up, the questions around the data they keep are rising. Data portability has become the watch phrase across the Web 2.0 world. Is there something to be learned about data access and portability from these services?

  • HBase Leads Discuss Hadoop, BigTable and Distributed Databases

    Google's recent introduction of their Google Application Engine has created renewed interest in alternative database technologies. InfoQ recently sat down with the leads of HBase, an open-source, distributed, data store modeled after the Google's BigTable.

  • Google 'simplifies web development' with AppEngine

    At Campfire One on April 7th, 2008, Google introduced Google App Engine as a way to simplify the job of creating, running and scaling web applications, to make it 'easy.' In essence, Google App Engine allows you to build web applications locally using and then deploy them on Google's infrastructure.

  • Google Releases Chart API

    Google releases a Chart API for creating charts and graphs for Web sites. Currently it supports line charts, bar charts, pie charts, scatter plots and sparklines.

  • Dalvik, Android's virtual machine, generates significant debate

    With the release of Google's Android SDK earlier this week, there was much discussion of the APIs and the expected impact in the mobile space. However, one particular area which generated significant debate in the Java community was the Dalvik virtual machine which is the basis of the Android platform.

  • Google Singleton Detector

    Google has released a tool that performs bytecode analysis in order to locate and report on Singletons within bytecode. Although the tool has limitations, it is one way to detect a pattern that many see as controversial.

  • Are Mashups EAI 2.0?

    Mashups are a lightweight, agile approach to application integration that utilize the protocols and standards of the web. Gregor Hohpe explores the use of Mashups and asks the question - Are Mashups EAI 2.0?

  • Google Base vs. Microsoft's Astoria

    Dare Obasanjo has done a comparison of two new protocols for access database style data via HTTP. These protocols, based on REST, are the Google Base and Microsoft's Astoria.

  • Steve Yegge Ports Rails to Javascript/Rhino

    At Foo Camp this past weekend, Steve Yegge of Google gave a talk called "Google Rails Clone" where, as John Lam reports, he talked about his experience porting Ruby on Rails to Javascript at Google. InfoQ summarized the community reaction and took the opportunity to speak with Steve Yegge, who was kind enough to answer some questions.

  • Google Scalability Session Report

    Dare Obasanjo shared his notes on a session given by Jeff Dean at the Google Conference on Scalability, "MapReduce, BigTable, and Other Distributed System Abstractions for Handling Large Datasets".

  • Google Gears: Industry Reactions The Day After

    As part of their developer days activities this week Google announced a new offline web application API Google Gears.

  • Google Developer Day 2007

    The Google Developer Day 2007 took place in 10 cities spanning the globe beginning in Sydney, Australia and ending in Mountain View, California. This is a report on some of the sessions at the event in Hamburg, Germany, on May 31, 2007.

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