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Cloud offerings free tier - Amazon vs Google

As a developer, you’re a pretty important resources for service providers. Without developers, service providers cannot make savings based on scale. Having developers also means higher chances of someone having a killer idea on top of your service, creating even more value. And developers attract more developers. In order to achieve that, service providers offer free services. In the Cloud realm, both Google and Amazon have a packaged offer valid for a year. Once the grace period has expi

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Google AppEngine limitations for Java (and how to overcome them)

Since the start of Google’s App Engine for Java, I have tried to create a small but representative project and to deploy it on Google’s infrastructure. I have learned much, mainly by making mistakes. Interestingly enough, there are much that I achieved I didn’t hope I would. On the contrary, the Devil is in the details, as they say, and I found some problems I couldn’t imagine there: for some, there are other solutions, for some, there aren’t. Eclipse Eclipse is

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Free Java hosting

They did it! Yes, they did it! Since a long time, PHP hosting is avalaible freely on the web from a multitude of providers but when you search the web for free Java hosting you find…​ nothing. Mark today as a the day Java free hosting came to reality: they did it! Who? Them, the techies from Google now support Java as their second language on Google App Engine. GAE leverages the entire Google infrastructure to host your web applications. Strangely enough, it was until then only avai