When I tried to increase our App Engine quotas, I was met with a pleasant surprise – all I needed to do was increase my plan with App Engine.
This would bring even more traffic, meaning I’d have to hire a systems administrator and do a lot more hands-on work monitoring and troubleshooting. Just when we were beginning to worry about scaling to meet the demand of our customers, I found out that our app would be featured in Apple’s App Store. It meant we needed a very easy-to-manage and robust platform that allowed our small team to support huge amounts of traffic. For a small company without any system administrators, this was both exciting and terrifying. So many people were using our app that we needed to support four billion minutes of video singing time (that’s over 7400 years worth of songs). Fans loved the app and we quickly outgrew the free quotas of App Engine, but soon after partnering with The Voice, our downloads really skyrocketed. In the very early stages of our company, we chose Google App Engine because of its promise of infinite scalability. We partnered with the hit reality singing TV show The Voice for our app, “The Voice: On Stage.” Last summer we added video capture capability, which allows fans to create cover videos of their favorite songs and submit them to the show’s casting agents.
We built “ StarMaker: Sing + Video” as a simple tool that lets people sing along to their tunes of choice. But being on TV isn’t always of interest to the hobbyist singer sometimes all they want is to feel like the lead singer of their favorite song. Howes, Vice President of Engineering for StarMaker Interactive, developer of an entertainment platform based on singing and music video apps.Īs indicated by the popularity of singing competition shows on TV, karaoke has gone mainstream. Today’s guest blog comes from Christian F.
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