Programming Google App Engine

Dan Sanderson

ISBN 10: 144939826X / ISBN 13: 9781449398262

Published by O'Reilly Media, US, 2012

About this Item

As a cloud computing service, Google App Engine does more than provide access to a large system of servers. It also offers you a simple model for building applications that scale automatically to accommodate millions of users. With this updated edition of Programming Google App Engine, you'll get expert practical guidance that will help you make the best use of this powerful platform. Google engineer Dan Sanderson shows you how to design your applications for scalability, including ways to perform common development tasks using App Engine's APIs and scalable services. You'll learn about App Engine's application server architecture, runtime environments, and scalable datastore for distributing data, as well as techniques for optimizing your application. App Engine offers nearly unlimited computing power, and this book provides clear and concise instructions for getting the most from it right from the source. It's ideal for intermediate and advanced web developers familiar with Java or Python.*Discover the differences between traditional web development and development with App Engine * Learn the details of App Engine's Python and Java runtime environments * Understand how App Engine handles web requests and executes application code * Learn how to use App Engine's scalable datastore, including queries and indexes, transactions, and data modeling * Use task queues to parallelize and distribute work across the infrastructure * Deploy and manage applications with ease.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Programming Google App Engine
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media, US
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 144939826X
• ISBN 13: 9781449398262
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Google App Engine makes it easy to create a web application that can serve millions of people as easily as serving hundreds, with minimal up-front investment. With Programming Google App Engine, Google engineer Dan Sanderson provides practical guidance for designing and developing your application on Google’s vast infrastructure, using App Engine’s scalable services and simple development model.

Through clear and concise instructions, you’ll learn how to get the most out of App Engine’s nearly unlimited computing power. This second edition is fully updated and expanded to cover Python 2.7 and Java 6 support, multithreading, asynchronous service APIs, and the use of frameworks such as Django 1.3 and webapp2.

• Understand how App Engine handles web requests and executes application code
• Learn about new datastore features for queries and indexes, transactions, and data modeling
• Create, manipulate, and serve large data files with the Blobstore
• Use task queues to parallelize and distribute computation across the infrastructure
• Employ scalable services for email, instant messaging, and communicating with web services
• Track resource consumption, and optimize your application for speed and cost effectiveness

About the Author

Dan Sanderson is a technical writer and software engineer at Google Inc. He has worked in the web industry for over 10 years as a software engineer and technical writer for Google, Amazon.com, and the Walt Disney Internet Group. He lives in Seattle, Washington. For more information about Dan, visit his website at http://www.dansanderson.com.