Keynote for Google I/O 2008: Client, Connectivity, and the Cloud
Featuring Vic Gundotra, Allen Hurff (MySpace), Steve Horowitz, Kevin Gibbs, Mark Lucovsky, Bruce Johnson, David Glazer, Nat Brown (iLike)
Lecture 1 in a five part series introducing mapreduce and cluster computing. See http://code.google.c om/edu/content/submi ssions/mapreduce-min ilecture/listing.htm l for slides and other resources.
Google Friend Connect lets you grow traffic by easily adding social features to your website. In this video, Google Product Manager Mussie Shore walks through the steps required to add Google Friend Connect to a sample website.
This video introduces developers to building apps on Google App Engine. For more in-depth information and deep-dive technical sessions, come to Google I/O, Google's largest developer event: http://code.google.c om/io/
Google App Engine enables developers to build their web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications.
For more info on Google App Engine:
http://code.googl e.com/appengine
Lecture 4: Clustering Algorithms with MapReduce. See
http://code.googl e.com/edu/content/su bmissions/mapreduce- minilecture/listing. htmlfor slides and other resources.
Google Software Engineer Brett Slatkin builds and deploys a sample guestbook web app on top of Google App Engine.
For more info on Google App Engine:
http://code.googl e.com/appengine
Lecture 2: The MapReduce programming model. See
http://code.googl e.com/edu/content/su bmissions/mapreduce- minilecture/listing. html for slides and other resources.
I had the pleasure of chatting with Steve Yegge, of long blogging fame, at the Google Kirkland office. We discussed the birth, growth, and future of the Rhino on Rails (RnR) project, as well as other web development issues.
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