July 11, 2010 at 16:33Google Storage for Developers
Recently opened Google Storage for developers. A big event, since Google has a habit of making convenient and understandable services. We offer you a few teaser screenshots from a competitor service Amazon S3.
So, I received a letter of the following content (if you evaporate all the water):
Firstly, I still don’t understand what I have to do with developers from the USA. I have always indicated that I am from Russia (though I have the GMail interface on EN-GB).
Secondly, once given the opportunity - it is necessary to test.
At the entrance, they gave me a read about how to work with the system:
I think it’s worth saying that HTML5 is used. Google follows its consistent policy of introducing / training in new standards.
You can work with the system using:
The latter is a web application that can work with repositories (buckets) and with folders / files (folders / objects), as well as work with ACLs for all these objects (this is from the documentation, I never found true work with ACLs )
When you log in for the first time, Google Storage Manager looks like this:
First you need to create a bucket. The manager does not allow uploading files or folders to the “root”.
Now you can go to the created storage, create folders, if necessary, and upload files.
Pleased with the ability to upload multiple files at once.
And the last one. Files can be "shared". Pay attention to the checkmark at the end of the line with the file (Share Publicly column). When you click on the checkmark, it glows green and a file link appears next to it. Like this:
Here, for example, links to uploaded files:
one , two
By the way, such a rhetorical question: what if someone also wants to create a repository named habrahabr? The question arose here therefore: commondatastorage.googleapis.com/habrahabr/test_for_habrahabr_1.jpg - that is, the name of the repository is in the link. I propose to test it.
UPD: Favorite vaults I
continued to poke around with the manager and noticed the arrow next to the Home button. By clicking the
button, the panel opens: The download time of a 112Kb picture was: minimum 210ms, maximum 950ms. The most likely value is 550ms.
Focus: after deleting the file or unchecking the general availability checkbox, the link remained active. The document is available by reference. Very strange, but unfortunately I don’t know how to get around.
Very convenient interface, quite extensive help with examples. But expensive and there are some misunderstandings.
If you are interested in experimenting with this service or looking at screenshots of something not shown, but you don’t have access, I’ll be happy to help.
UPD: Unfortunately, Python is not my language. If you want to try working with the system from the library, I’ll open for you the “secret key” for the API.
Thanks.
How was it
So, I received a letter of the following content (if you evaporate all the water):
Here is the invite link you requested:
sandbox.google.com/storage/m/?invite= ********
Please note that this invite is not transferable and Google Storage is available only to developers from the USA.
During the test period, you will be available 100GB for data and 300GB / month for traffic without any charge.
Firstly, I still don’t understand what I have to do with developers from the USA. I have always indicated that I am from Russia (though I have the GMail interface on EN-GB).
Secondly, once given the opportunity - it is necessary to test.
Screenshots
At the entrance, they gave me a read about how to work with the system:
I think it’s worth saying that HTML5 is used. Google follows its consistent policy of introducing / training in new standards.
You can work with the system using:
The latter is a web application that can work with repositories (buckets) and with folders / files (folders / objects), as well as work with ACLs for all these objects (this is from the documentation, I never found true work with ACLs )
When you log in for the first time, Google Storage Manager looks like this:
First you need to create a bucket. The manager does not allow uploading files or folders to the “root”.
Now you can go to the created storage, create folders, if necessary, and upload files.
Pleased with the ability to upload multiple files at once.
And the last one. Files can be "shared". Pay attention to the checkmark at the end of the line with the file (Share Publicly column). When you click on the checkmark, it glows green and a file link appears next to it. Like this:
Here, for example, links to uploaded files:
one , two
By the way, such a rhetorical question: what if someone also wants to create a repository named habrahabr? The question arose here therefore: commondatastorage.googleapis.com/habrahabr/test_for_habrahabr_1.jpg - that is, the name of the repository is in the link. I propose to test it.
UPD: Favorite vaults I
continued to poke around with the manager and noticed the arrow next to the Home button. By clicking the
button, the panel opens: The download time of a 112Kb picture was: minimum 210ms, maximum 950ms. The most likely value is 550ms.
Focus: after deleting the file or unchecking the general availability checkbox, the link remained active. The document is available by reference. Very strange, but unfortunately I don’t know how to get around.
conclusions
Very convenient interface, quite extensive help with examples. But expensive and there are some misunderstandings.
If you are interested in experimenting with this service or looking at screenshots of something not shown, but you don’t have access, I’ll be happy to help.
UPD: Unfortunately, Python is not my language. If you want to try working with the system from the library, I’ll open for you the “secret key” for the API.
Thanks.