A cloud of robots

I’m a big fan of Google App Engine. It’s like a cloud of hard working robots. You write applications, within sensible constraints. Google does all the hard work.

As food for thought on what you can achieve with so little effort on App Engine, here’s a 40 line app that will send and receive email over HTTP. Building an email gateway is a simple problem that’s hard to do well and tricky to scale. App engine makes it cheap and easy.

Can your cloud haz robots?

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