By Tom
Stocky, Director, Google Developer Products
We recently
announced a System Status
Dashboard for Google App Engine. As developers depend on App Engine for important
applications, we wanted to provide more visibility into App Engine's availability and
performance.
Application development today is pretty different than it
was just a few years ago. Most web apps now make use of hosted third-party services for
features like search, maps, video, or translation (e.g., our AJAX APIs). These services mean
developers don't have to invest in massive computing resources to build these features
themselves, and can instead focus on what is exciting and new about their apps.
Building in dependencies to third-party services or moving to a new hosting
infrastructure is not something developers take lightly. This new App Engine dashboard
provides some of the same monitoring data that we use internally, so you can make informed
decisions about your hosting infrastructure.
