CHAPTER 30

GOOGLE CLOUD APPLICATIONS

30.1 Google Applications Utilizing Cloud

30.2 Google App Engine

Google’s domain is constructed on the World Wide Web advertising. In 2010, 96% of its $29 billion income came from online ads. Google deals subscriptions to enterprises, applying its web know-how to market conventionally controlled by a very distinct kind of Software Company.

In September 2009, Gmail was offline for 1 hour 40 minutes. Users over the globe were unable to access the service after the company made a mistake when updating the demand to routers that direct queries to Gmail’s web servers. The occurrence pursued a sequence of other, lesser Gmail outages, but Google habitually contended that, in evaluation to client-server e-mail systems, ...

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