Book description
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
Table of contents
- Programming Google App Engine
- Dedication
- Preface
- 1. Introducing Google App Engine
- 2. Creating an Application
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3. Configuring an Application
- The App Engine Architecture
- Configuring a Python App
- Configuring a Java App
- Domain Names
- App IDs and Versions
- Multithreading
- Request Handlers
- Static Files and Resource Files
- Secure Connections
- Authorization with Google Accounts
- Environment Variables
- Inbound Services
- Custom Error Responses
- Administration Console Custom Pages
- More Python Features
- Java Servlet Sessions
- 4. Request Handlers and Instances
- 5. Datastore Entities
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6. Datastore Queries
- Queries and Kinds
- Query Results and Keys
- GQL
- The Python Query API
- The Java Query API
- Introducing Indexes
- Automatic Indexes and Simple Queries
- Custom Indexes and Complex Queries
- Not-Equal and IN Filters
- Unset and Nonindexed Properties
- Sort Orders and Value Types
- Queries and Multivalued Properties
- Query Cursors
- Projection Queries
- Configuring Indexes
- 7. Datastore Transactions
- 8. Datastore Administration
- 9. Data Modeling with Python
- 10. The Java Persistence API
- 11. The Memory Cache
- 12. Large Data and the Blobstore
- 13. Fetching URLs and Web Resources
- 14. Sending and Receiving Email Messages
- 15. Sending and Receiving Instant Messages with XMPP
- 16. Task Queues and Scheduled Tasks
- 17. Optimizing Service Calls
- 18. The Django Web Application Framework
- 19. Managing Request Logs
- 20. Deploying and Managing Applications
- Index
- About the Author
- Colophon
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Programming Google App Engine, 2nd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2012
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781449398262
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