Interviewed in the MIT Technology Review
Figaro Interactive was recently Interviewed by the MIT Technology Review for our Google App Engine site, Brave New Fiction. It’s a nice article on App Engine and what it means for web development in the coming times.
Web App Writers: Rejoice, Beware
Software developer Brit Gardner, cofounder of Dallas-based Figaro Interactive, tested App Engine’s capabilities by beginning work on a demo application soon after the service came out. Though he didn’t know Python, the programming language App Engine requires, he says he was able to build his application in the space of a few days. Gardner says that he sees App Engine as significantly different from Amazon Web Services, in that it’s a framework for application development, rather than merely a place to rent processing and storage capacity. He says that his site isn’t close to hitting Google’s page-view and storage limits, and he doubts that many other sites will be, either, since there are a lot of sites out there and only so many users.