Jaiku is NOW on the Google App Engine
The long awaited move for Jaiku has finally begun. Last night they took down the home page and took all services off-line and replaced them with this message …
Folks, we’re offline for the weekend for server maintenance. Now’s a good time to talk to someone you love.
Now I can confirm that they have moved to the Google App Engine and will be hosted there when they come back up. As they say picture paints a thousand words, so for proof take a look at this.
For those of you not familiar with trace routes the last few lines there show that the domain Jaiku.com is now on the Google network. The IP address that it finishes at is also one belonging to several blocks used by GAE. Up until this, Jaiku.com had remained on the same Finnish server it was on when google bought it, trying to survive on just 1GB of RAM.
So what can we expect to see now that Jaiku has moved? Well the number one thing we can expect is near 100% reliable service, no more down time for the API or the IM bot and the last of the 502 Bird. The next thing is open registrations for all, whether that will come in the form of a Google account or Jaiku account remains to be seen yet but I would safely say that we will see Jaiku and Google accounts merged into one in the near future. And finally we will hopefully see the launch of some new features and maybe even the public release of the current updated beta S60 client, I’ve also heard that a lesser featured iPhone client may on the horizon too.
As always we’ll have more news as soon as we get it here on JaikuInvites so be sure to drop by.
Update: I have just been in contact with the Jaiku team and while they can’t comment on anything right now they are “working hard to bring Jaiku back online soon.” I guess we’ll just have to wait and see what’s in store.
Update 2: More proof that Jaiku is moving/has moved, the response headers for Jaiku.com are now returning that they are being served by the “Google Frontend” server. See the full output below:
Response Headers - http://www.jaiku.com/blog/
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Cache-Control: public Expires: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:46:09 GMT Content-Encoding: gzip Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:59:09 GMT Server: Google Frontend Content-Length: 632 200 OK
The Google Frontend server, is the server type that is used by all Google App Engine Apps.
Update 3: Jaiku have confirmed the move! They have updated the status message on their homepage to read:
Setting up our nest in a new datacenter, after finding an issue with a server on Friday. Sorry for the inconvenience. We’re working to get back online soon.
Update 4: Google have issued a second statement to the Eweek Google Watch blog.
“We’ve been working on the Jaiku service over the weekend after finding an issue with one of our servers on Friday. As part of the solution, we’re moving the service to a Google data center. Users can expect Jaiku to be back up soon.”
Nothing new there, but it’s still only 3:00pm in San Francisco where the whole Jaiku team is based this week. Even Teemu Kurppa (@teemu) the normally London based developer is in San Francisco this week, we expect to help with port. One of his last updates on Jaiku before the downtime being (from the Google cache):
“Firealarm sent us out to windy street and I forgot my hoodie. But I saw Guido! “
By teemu Friday, 22 August 2008 in Google, San Francisco, CA, USA. Add Comment“Server-side fixing”
By teemu Thursday, 21 August 2008 in San Francisco, CA, USA
August 23rd, 2008 at 8:37 pm
good job, thanks!
August 23rd, 2008 at 11:11 pm
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August 23rd, 2008 at 11:57 pm
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August 24th, 2008 at 3:20 am
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August 24th, 2008 at 3:24 am
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August 24th, 2008 at 7:25 am
[...] To read the latest on what is happening with this please see the JaikuInvites.com Blog. [...]
August 24th, 2008 at 8:07 am
[...] keskittyneellä Jaikuinvitesillä on trace route todisteena siitä, että jaiku.com on nyt Googlen huomassa. Täsmälleen kuukausi sitten hätäilin tämän [...]
August 24th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Personally, I have preferred Twitter so far (because it’s open to everybody), but if Jaiku opens up to everyone and is able (with the GAE) to provide its current feature set (SMS, IM, etc.) to Twitter-like hordes of users, it might challenge Twitter as the king of the microblogging world.
August 24th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
[...] на Google App Engine, свидетельствуют данные трассировки, опубликованные на [...]
August 24th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
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August 24th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
[...] having looked at responses by Jaiku Invites and ZDNet’s Googling Google blogger Garett Rogers, it appears that the service isn’t quite [...]
August 24th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
[...] having looked at responses by Jaiku Invites and ZDNet’s Googling Google blogger Garett Rogers, it appears that the service isn’t quite [...]
August 24th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
Jaiku? LOL.. those guys are irrelevant now. Twitter demolished them.
August 24th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
[...] having looked at responses by Jaiku Invites and ZDNet’s Googling Google blogger Garett Rogers, it appears that the service isn’t quite [...]
August 24th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Threaded convo @ Plurk and Pownce prove popularity of such microblog sites. Looking forward to up time. Now: when open to public again? Got friends who wanna give it a whirl!
August 24th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
[...] is moving Jaiku to the Google App Engine, its cloud-based servers capable of running applications, reports Jaiku Invites. This move should make the unreliable service, reliable once again. It could also mean that Jaiku [...]
August 24th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Now I just wonder when (or if) GrandCentral will follow suit….
August 24th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
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August 25th, 2008 at 5:01 am
[...] helgen har Jaiku varit nere för "server maintenance". Bloggen Jaikuinvites.com kan dock berätta att vad som egentligen händer är att Google nu äntligen flyttar tjänsten [...]
August 25th, 2008 at 8:36 am
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August 25th, 2008 at 9:42 am
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August 25th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
[...] Jaiku is NOW on the Google App Engine [...]
August 25th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
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August 25th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Nummer fü.. ehm: Jaiku lebt…
Jaiku (das ist ein Microblogging Ding, das ähnlich ist, wie Friedfeed und (ich glaube) älter als Twitter wurde ja von Google gekauft. Es gingen Gerüchte, dass man den Dienst einstampfen und zum Teil von Android (Googles kommende Handy-Betriebssystem…
August 25th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
[...] Via: Jaikuinvites [...]
August 26th, 2008 at 9:30 am
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August 26th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
would love it if somebody could hook me up w/ an invite
August 27th, 2008 at 12:02 am
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August 27th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
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August 27th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
@bill fishkin: Click on the “Need an Invite?” link at the top right of this very page to get an invite.
August 28th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
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August 31st, 2008 at 4:31 am
[...] is moving Jaiku to the Google App Engine, its cloud-based servers capable of running applications, reports the Jaiku-focused blog Jaiku Invites. This move should make the unreliable service reliable once again. It could also mean that Jaiku [...]
August 31st, 2008 at 5:14 pm
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