Programming Google App Engine: Build and Run Scalable Web Apps on Google's InfrastructureAs one of today's cloud computing services, Google App Engine does more than provide access to a large system of servers. It also offers you a simple model for building applications that scale automatically to accommodate millions of users. With Programming Google App Engine, you'll get expert practical guidance that will help you make the best use of this powerful platform. Google engineer Dan Sanderson shows you how to design your applications for scalability, including ways to perform common development tasks using App Engine's APIs and scalable services. You'll learn about App Engine's application server architecture, runtime environments, and scalable datastore for distributing data, as well as techniques for optimizing your application. App Engine offers nearly unlimited computing power, and this book provides clear and concise instructions for getting the most from it right from the source.
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Contents
Chapter 1 Introducing Google App Engine | 1 |
Chapter 2 Creating an Application | 15 |
Chapter 3 Handling Web Requests | 63 |
Chapter 4 Datastore Entities | 103 |
Chapter 5 Datastore Queries | 121 |
Chapter 6 Datastore Transactions | 163 |
Chapter 7 Data Modeling with Python | 183 |
Chapter 8 The Java Persistence API | 207 |
Chapter 10 Fetching URLs and Web Resources | 239 |
Chapter 11 Sending and Receiving Mail and Instant Messages | 251 |
Chapter 12 Bulk Data Operations and Remote Access | 277 |
Chapter 13 Task Queues and Scheduled Tasks | 293 |
Chapter 14 The Django Web Application Framework | 313 |
Chapter 15 Deploying and Managing Applications | 333 |
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Chapter 9 The Memory Cache | 227 |