If you're unfamiliar with Google App Engine, the short version is it's a cloud environment that allows for simple building and deployment of Platform-As-A-Service (paas) solutions.

Compared to a lot of similar solutions, Google App Engine allows you to build and test your applications in a very simple and straightforward way. Google App Engine allows you to write and deploy in Python, Java, PHP, and of course, Go.

For the most part, Google App Engine provides a standard Go installation that makes it easy to dovetail off of the http package. But it also gives you a few noteworthy additional packages that are unique to Google App Engine itself:

While Go is still considered beta for Google App Engine, you can expect that if anyone was able to competently deploy it in a cloud environment, it would be Google.