Google has announced several improvements to its cloud computing platform that enhance the services available to developers. For example, Google Compute Engine now has Layer 3 load balancing, which intelligently routes Web application traffic across a collection of servers.
In addition, Google Cloud Datastore has added support for Google Query Language (Google’s SQL-like language) and for Ruby applications, as well as adding a new metadata query capability.
Finally, Google App Engine 1.8.3 now has an improved PHP runtime.
