Google App Engine Now Streamlines Push, Boosts API Limits And More

Google's App Engine, a platform that helps developers build web applications by streamlining some of the work they'd typically have to do themselves, is getting a big upgrade today.

The App Engine team is calling today's 1.4.0 release the biggest they've done this year, with features that include: a new Channel API that makes it much easier to build real-time Push events into your app; 'Always On', which lets developers pay $9 per month to keep three 'instances' of their application alive at all times; and Warm Up Requests, which automatically load instances of applications just before they're needed, which helps reduce load times when users begin accessing the application.

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