Programming Google App Engine, 2nd Edition

Google App Engine makes it easy to create aweb application that can serve millions of people as easily as servinghundreds, with minimal up-front investment. With Programming Google App Engine,Google engineer Dan Sanderson provides practical guidance for designing anddeveloping your application on Google’s vast infrastructure, using App Engine’sscalable services and simple development model.

Through clear and concise instructions, you’ll learn how to get the most out ofApp Engine’s nearly unlimited computing power. This second edition is fullyupdated 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 andwebapp2.

• 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