Google App Engine

Danail AlexievTechnical TrainerSoftAcad.bg

Who’s Talking?•Danail AlexievoSoftware Consultant at Axway, technical trainer at SoftAcad learning center

Topics Today• What is Google App Engine(GAE) ?• Why GAE ?• Architecture of GAE• Quota & Pricing• Developing using GAE• Deploying Applications• Security• GAE datastore• Demo application

What is GAE?• Google’s platform to build Web

Applications on the cloud• Dynamic Web server• Transactional DataStore Model

Why GAE?• Automatic scaling and load balancing• Lower total cost of ownership• Web administration console & utilities• Enhances developing & deploying of

web applications• Multilanguage support (Java, Python,

GO..)• Secure environment (Sandbox)

Architecture of GAE

Quota & Pricinghttp://code.google.com/intl/bg-BG/appengine/docs/quotas.html#Resources

• $0.10 - $0.12 per CPU core-hour• $0.15 - $0.18 per GB-month of storage• $0.11 - $0.13 per GB outgoing bandwidth• $0.09 - $0.11 per GB incoming bandwidth

Developing using GAE

• Dynamic web servingo With full support for common web technologies

• Persistent storageo With queries, sorting and transactions

• Automatic scaling and load balancing• Google Account APIs

o For authenticating users and sending email• A local development environment

o That simulates Google App Engine on your computer• Task queues

o For performing work outside of the scope of a web request

• Scheduled tasks for triggering events

The Sandbox• Outgoing access via URL fetch or email

services• Incoming access via HTTP (or HTTPS)• Store state via App Engine datastore,

memcache• Respond to web request, queued task,

scheduled task• Return response data within 30 seconds• Quotas and Limits• Free 500MB of storage and 5 million page

views a month• 10 applications per developer account

The GAE Datastore

Intro to DS• Apparently based on BigTable• Absolutely not a relational

database• No joins (they do have “reference

fields”)• No aggregate queries - not even

count()!• Hierarchy affects sharding and

transactions• All queries must run against an

existing index

Models & Entities

• Data is stored as entities• Entities have properties - key/value pairs• An entity has a unique key• Entities live in a hierarchy, and siblings exist in the same entity groupo These are actually really important for

transactions and performance• A model is kind of like a class; it lets you define a type of entity

Developing using GAE

• Hello world• Datastore & entities• Memcache• Mail and Task Queues API• High Replication• Queues & Backends• Warmup requests• Pagination

Deployment• Register using admin console if not done

yet and get application ID• Uploading using eclipse plugin – just click

upload!

• Or using command line :

appengine-java-sdk\bin\appcfg.cmd [options] <action> <war-location>

Google App Engine

Homework1. Following the GAE tutorial at https://

developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/gettingstarted/creating create and deploy a "Hello World" application in the GAE cloud.

2. Following the official GAE manuals (https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/gettingstarted/) create and deploy a simple guestbook application in Java or Python.

In case you find difficulties, check the solution here: http://code.google.com/p/guestbook-java/As a result of your work send the source code + the URLs of your working application deployed in GAE.