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diff --git a/content/appengine-scalable.article b/content/appengine-scalable.article new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4a91040 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/appengine-scalable.article @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +# Writing scalable App Engine applications +1 Nov 2011 +Tags: appengine, optimization +Summary: How to build scalable web applications using Go with Google App Engine. +OldURL: /writing-scalable-app-engine + +David Symonds + +## + +Back in May, we [announced](https://blog.golang.org/2011/05/go-and-google-app-engine.html) +the Go runtime for App Engine. +Since then, we've opened it up for everyone to use, +added many new APIs, and improved performance. +We have been thrilled by all the interesting ways that people are using Go on App Engine. +One of the key benefits of the Go runtime, +apart from working in a fantastic language, +is that it has high performance. +Go applications compile to native code, with no interpreter or virtual machine +getting between your program and the machine. + +Making your web application fast is important because it is well known that +a web site's latency has a measurable impact on user happiness, +and [Google web search uses it as a ranking factor](https://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/using-site-speed-in-web-search-ranking.html). +Also announced in May was that App Engine would be [leaving its Preview status](http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2011/05/year-ahead-for-google-app-engine.html) +and transitioning to a [new pricing model](https://www.google.com/enterprise/cloud/appengine/pricing.html), +providing another reason to write efficient App Engine applications. + +To make it easier for Go developers using App Engine to write highly efficient, +scalable applications, we recently updated some existing App Engine articles +to include snippets of Go source code and to link to relevant Go documentation. + + - [Best practices for writing scalable applications](http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/scaling/overview.html) + + - [Managing Your App's Resource Usage](http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/managing-resources.html) |