As Google announced today, the Cloud Platform is getting two features that have long been on developers' wish lists: HTTP load balancing and SSD-based persistent storage.

Google Cloud Platform has added new load balancing, giving Google App Engine further scale-out capabilities. Google has also added new Ruby support for Datastore and improved PHP runtime.

Google Cloud is increasing prices for Google’s cloud storage services, Cloud Load Balancing and Network Topology as the public cloud giant competes with AWS and Microsoft Azure.

According to Google Cloud Platform management lead Tom Kershaw, the HTTP load balancing can scale to support more than one million requests per second with no cache warm-up or pre-population.

In contrast to point products like a load balancer or API gateway that were designed to provide a single function for legacy applications, VoltMesh provides multiple services for cloud-native ...