Programming Google App Engine: Build and Run Scalable Web Apps on Google's Infrastructure

by Dan Sanderson

As one of today's cloud computing services, 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 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.




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

Genres: Programming, Technical, Technology, Software, Reference

394 pages, ebook

First published November 1, 2009

Reviews

[Ed Holden · Rating 4 out of 5]

Programming GAE is a thoroughly readable guide, and provides a solid overview of this cloud platform, including Google's way of organizing databases (they changed the industry) and the many services GAE offers. While Google's online developer docs for GAE are very useful as well, the narrative structure here guides you through the concepts in a logical order, and at least for my style of learning, was a must for developing on this platform.

As with any technical book, the reader must absorb the bits he or she needs and skip the rest, but I found myself reading most of the book, including the overview of Django (which I don't use) and only skipped the sections dealing exclusively with Java, since my goal was to learn about Python on App Engine. Basically, I read this cover to cover and skipped ahead whenever I encountered lots of semicolons or XML.

[Andy L · Rating 4 out of 5]

A typically useful O'Reilly book.

[Pamela Fox · Rating 4 out of 5]

A well written book explaining App Engine, with many chapters dedicated to an in-depth look at the datastore, one of the trickiest parts. Slightly better for Python devs than Java devs.

[Frank Palardy · Rating 4 out of 5]

All right book, but Google cloud is a little confusing.