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Google Cloud Platform enhances Compute Engine, App Engine and Cloud Datastore

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Google Cloud Platformfeatures we first shared at I/O

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 Enginelayer 3 load balancing

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

pricing pageImproved developer experience for Google Cloud DatastoreGoogle Query Language (GQL) SupportGQL supportMetadata queriesMetadata QueriesLocal SDK improvements numerous enhancementsincluded supportGetting started with RubyCloud Datastore support for Ruby developersUpdates to the PHP runtime in Google App Engine 1.8.3 PHP runtimerelease notesintegration with Google Cloud Storage

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

task queuesPushTask:addTasks()Greg DeMichillie

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