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Python for Google App Engine
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Python for Google App Engine

by Massimiliano Pippi
January 2015
Intermediate to advanced
198 pages
4h 27m
English
Packt Publishing
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Using the local MySQL installation for development

There are several reasons why we wouldn't want to work with a Cloud SQL instance while running our application locally in the development server. We might notice major slowdowns because every time we connect to a Cloud SQL instance, we perform a socket connection to a remote host that can be very far from us. Moreover, regardless of the Cloud SQL tier we choose, we always pay something for using the service and we might not want to use it while experimenting on the local development server.

Fortunately, we can leverage the fact that, in the end, a Cloud SQL instance is nothing more than a MySQL database when our code talks to it. We can then install a local instance of a MySQL server and work with ...

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