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8th April 2008 - Link Blog

Google App Engine. Write applications in Python using a WSGI compatible application framework, then host them on Google’s highly scalable infrastructure. The most exciting part is probably the Datastore API, which provides external developers with access to Bigtable for the first time.

Posted 8th April 2008 at 7:25 am

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