adrift on a cosmic ocean

Writings on various topics (mostly technical) from Oliver Hookins and Angela Collins. We currently reside in Sydney after almost a decade in Berlin, have three kids, and have far too little time to really justify having a blog.

Posts tagged with google app engine

  • Service SDKs and Language Support Part 2
    Posted by Oliver on the 20th of January, 2013 in category Tech

    As I wrote previously, I found that the mismatch between the goals of large cloud services like Amazon Web Services and the languages they support slightly conflict with the notion of making highly concurrent and parallelised workflows.

    Of course the obvious followup to that post (even embarrassingly obvious since I've been copiously mentioning Go so much recently) is to point out that Google's App Engine is doing this right by supporting Go as a first-class language, even getting an SDK…

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