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Google Cloud Platform enhances Compute Engine, App Engine and Cloud Datastore
August 7, 2013
Today’s updates to
Google Cloud Platform
bring lots of new enhancements complementing
features we first shared at I/O
. Check out the latest additions:
layer 3 load balancing capability for
Google Compute Engine
new features and productivity improvements for
Google Cloud Datastore
improvements to the PHP runtime as part of the
Google App Engine
1.8.3 release
Load balancing now available on Google Compute Engine
We’ve now added
layer 3 load balancing
to Compute Engine, which delivers Google-scale throughput and fault tolerance to manage Internet applications. Load balancing is critical in any highly scalable system, allowing you to automatically and intelligently route traffic across a collection of servers.
With the load balancing service, you can:
Load-balance ingress network TCP/UDP traffic over a specific set of Compute Engine virtual machines (VMs) within the same region
Ensure that only healthy VMs are used to serve Internet requests through the use of HTTP-based health checks
Easily handle spikes in load without pre-warming
Configure the load balancer via command line interface (CLI) and a programmatic RESTful API
This initial release provides Layer 3 support and we’ll continue to expand its capabilities on a regular basis. We’re pleased to offer the load balancing feature at no cost through the end of 2013, after which we’ll charge the rates outlined on our
pricing page
.
Improved developer experience for Google Cloud Datastore
Cloud development tools should enhance developer productivity, and that’s what we focused on with the latest update to Cloud Datastore.
Google Query Language (GQL) Support
Being able to search for data lies at the heart of all data-driven applications, and we’ve made that easier by adding
GQL support
— a SQL-like language for retrieving entities or keys from Cloud Datastore.
Metadata queries
You can now access
Metadata Queries
that allow you to retrieve statistics on their underlying data. This is useful when building your internal administration consoles, performing custom analysis or simply debugging an application.
Local SDK improvements
Part of providing great developer experiences is allowing developers to make changes in a fast, efficient and cost-effective way. That’s why we’ve made
numerous enhancements
to the command line tool.
Separately, we’ve also
included support
for those of you who use Microsoft Windows.
Getting started with Ruby
If there is one thing that developers are passionate about (us included) it’s languages. The initial release of Cloud Datastore included code snippets and samples for getting up and running with Java, Python and Node. With the latest release, we’ve included the same
Cloud Datastore support for Ruby developers
— allowing you to easily spin up Ruby applications that rely on a managed NoSQL datastore.
Updates to the PHP runtime in Google App Engine 1.8.3
We’ve been listening to feedback from early developers using the
PHP runtime
, so our latest App Engine release is dedicated to PHP. But there are still a few new goodies for those of you not using PHP, which you can find in the
release notes
.
Our
integration with Google Cloud Storage
for reading and writing files has proven to be popular, so we expanded this in 1.8.3. Our latest update includes:
improved support for working with directories in
Google Cloud Storage
— allowing you to call functions such as
opendir()
or
writedir()
directly on Cloud Storage buckets
support for functions related to
stat()
-ing files, such as
is_readable()
and
is_file()
the ability to write metadata to Cloud Storage files
substantial performance improvements through memcache-backed optimistic read caching — this improves the performance of applications that need to read frequently from the same Cloud Storage file
numerous
bug fixes
We’ve also improved support for
task queues
, including the ability to set headers on push tasks and to add tasks to queues efficiently in bulk using the new
PushTask:addTasks()
method.
We hope you enjoy the new Cloud Platform features!
-Posted by
Greg DeMichillie
, Director of Product Management
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