Cloud computing might be a useful method for hosting web services in a reliable, scalable environment. Google App Engine (GAE) is an unusual cloud system in that it provides an application hosting environment rather than a "bare" operating system. GAE applications scale automatically in response to increasing load, and usage of this cloud is free up to a certain set of quotas.
Attracted by these qualities, and motivated by a need to develop a fast and reliable Web Map Service (WMS) for base maps, we have performed an investigation of the suitability of GAE for hosting a WMS. Full details, including a paper we have submitted to COM.Geo 2010, can be found at http://code.google.com/p/gae-wms/.
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Update: the paper has been accepted for the conference. The camera-ready version can now be downloaded from http://code.google.com/p/gae-wms/.
ReplyDeleteI'm pleasantly surprised that the pre-review version of the paper has been downloaded 60 times already (the data have been downloaded only once). It's a shame that Google's project hosting can't give me Sourceforge-like detailed statistics on when the downloads were. I wonder if there was a spike after Com.geo posted the accepted papers on their website?
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