Chapter 11. App Engine: fully managed applications
This chapter covers
- What is App Engine, and when is it a good fit?
- Building an application using the Standard and Flex versions
- Managing how your applications scale up and down
- Using App Engine Standard’s managed services
As you’ve learned, there are many available computing platforms, representing a large variety in terms of complexity, flexibility, and performance. Whereas Compute Engine was an example of low-level infrastructure (a VM), App Engine is a fully managed cloud computing environment that aims to consolidate all of the work needed when deploying and running your applications. In addition to being able to run code as you would on a VM, App Engine offers several services that come ...
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