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Google is hoping to entice a few developers over to Google App Engine (GAE) by providing a ticket tracker that runs on GAE for developers to study and test out.

Called Au-to-do, it's written in Python and uses Google Cloud Storage, the Prediction API, Tasks API and OAuth 2.

If you are looking for a way to move your .NET app into the cloud, then you probably have heard of Apprenda by now. We covered their launch earlier this year, and today they have v3 available.

New features included in Apprenda 3.0 are support for nearly any .NET web or SOA application by way of its software layer that enterprises can use quickly and easily. Apprenda has beefed up its APIs and included ones for distributed caching, publish/subscribe systems, message brokering, and application metering. All to make building more complex apps easier.

Google is turning up the heat with its cloud services for the enterprise. Today the company bundled up several announcements ranging from the Cloud SQL service in limited preview to promoting Cloud Storage out of Google Labs. App Engine developers are also getting a premier support option with a 99.95 Service Level Agreement (SLA).

Google did not make developers happy with its pricing changes to Google App Engine GAE. Google announced the pricing changes in May, but it only implemented a side-by-side comparison with the old pricing at the beginning of September. After a fair amount of backlash, Google is backing off. Sort of.

If you're looking for pay for what you use, Todd Hoff says the dream is dead, but GAE will survive.

Google has a problem on its hands. The pricing change for App Engine is not winning hearts and minds with developers. The first, most visible, victim after one day is Russell Beattie's PlusFeed. There are sure to be more.

Beattie, who'd set up a service to provide feeds for Google Plus has pulled the plug. Beattie, calling the pricing "completely f****** insane", says that his costs would have jumped from $2.63 based on resources used to $68.46 for one day.

When have customers ever been happy about a price increase? Right. So it should come as little shock that there's a bit of grumbling about Google App Engine (GAE) prices going up as it leaves preview. It's not just the pricing increase, though, Google is also changing the way it calculates the bill.

To mollify customers a bit, Google is extending a one-time credit of $50 through October 31st. Given the feedback so far that may not be enough.

Google has announced that its Google Apps, App Engine, Postini and Google Storage for Developers products have passed the SSAE-16 Type II and ISAE 3402 Type II certifications. Sounds great, but what does it actually mean?

Well, the SSAE-16 is actually the "American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements 16 (SSAE-16)." Got all that? If you go read the sites related to SSAE-16 and ISAE 3402 linked by Google, you'll probably come away with a head full of jargon and no better idea of what Google has achieved than before.

Google's Go programming language is now supported in Google App Engine for all users. Google made the Go SDK available during I/O this year, but most developers have not been able to take advantage of it yet. You can get started here.

Go was created internally at Google starting in 2007, though it wasn't announced until 2009. Google reports using the language in production.

Yesterday former Google Wave engineer Dhanji R. Prasanna wrote on his blog about why he is leaving the company. It's an interesting look at Google's company culture, but there's also an interesting technical nugget in there. "Google's vaunted scalable software infrastructure is obsolete," Prasanna wrote. He emphasizes that the hardware infrastructure is still state of the art, "But the software stack on top of it is 10 years old, aging and designed for building search engines and crawlers."

Prasanna says software like BigTable and MapReduce are "ancient, creaking dinosaurs" compared to open source alternatives like Apache Hadoop.

Google App Engine now supports Go, the programming language developed by Google for scaling applications and multi-processor systems.

This is one of a number of features in Google App Engine 1.5, announced today at Google I/O.