Mastering Google App Engine (pdf)

Description

About This Book

• Get an in-depth look at how Google App Engine works under the hood
• Design and model your application around Google’s highly scalable distributed NoSQL datastore to unlock its full potential
• A comprehensive guide to ensure your mastery of Google App Engine

Who This Book Is For

If you have been developing web applications in Python or any other programming language such as PHP, Ruby or Java but have always wondered how to write highly scalable web applications without getting into system administration and other plumbing, then this is the book for you.

What You Will Learn

• Develop and scale your applications on top of Google App Engine’s runtime environment
• Get firm grip of the Google App Engine’s request handling mechanism and write request handlers
• Dive deep into Google’s distributed NoSQL, highly scalable datastore and design your application around it
• Implement powerful search functionality backed with a scalable datastore
• Perform long-running tasks in the background using task queues
• Write compartmentalized apps using multi tenancy, memcache, and other Google App Engine runtime services
• Deploy, tweak, and manage apps in production on Google App Engine