Preface
In April 2008, 10,000 developers from all around the world were lucky enough to get an account to access the preview release of Google App Engine, which is a tool designed to let users run their web applications on the same infrastructure Google uses for its own services. Announced during Google's Campfire One event, App Engine was described as something easy to use, easy to scale and free to get started; three design goals that perfectly matched the requirements of a typical tech start-up trying to reduce the time to market.
While other big companies at that time were already offering to lease part of their own infrastructure, selling reliability and scalability in an affordable, pay-per-use fashion, Google set App Engine one step ahead ...
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