What is Google App Engine
- 1. What is Google App Engine? CloudPlay - April 29th, Sunnyvale Ca Chris Schalk Developer Advocate http://twitter.com/cschalk
- 2. What is cloud computing?
- 3. Cloud Computing Landscape SaaS APaaS IaaS Source: Gartner AADI Summit Dec 2009
- 7. Google App Engine Easy to build Easy to maintain Easy to scale
- 8. By the numbers By the Numbers
- 9. By the numbers 250,000+ Developers
- 10. By the numbers 100,000+ Apps
- 11. By the numbers 250M+ daily Pageviews
- 12. In a word… via Wordle Word source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Engine
- 13. Some App Engine Partners
- 14. Socialwok
- 15. Social networking at scale >62M Users
- 16. gigy Socialize
- 17. gigy Socialize Flexible Scalability "Although we typically host all our services in-house, on our own infrastructure, we felt that GAE would be a better fit for the live chat feature because of its unique traffic pattern, which is characterized by very low traffic most of the time with very high bursts during high profile events." Raviv Pavel, Gigya VP of Research and Development http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2010/02/scalability-means-flexibility.html#links
- 18. App Engine @
- 19. Why App Engine?
- 20. Managing Everything is Hard
- 22. DIY Hosting means hidden costs Idle capacity Software patches & upgrades License fees Lots of maintenance Traffic & utilization forecasting Upgrades
- 23. Cloud development in a box SDK & “The Cloud” Hardware Networking Operating system Application runtime Java, Python Static file serving Services Fault tolerance Load balancing
- 25. Specialized Services Memcache Datastore URL Fetch Mail XMPP Task Queue Images Blobstore User Service
- 26. Language runtimes Duke, the Java mascot Copyright © Sun Microsystems Inc., all rights reserved.
- 28. Extended Language support through JVM Java Scala JRuby (Ruby) Groovy Quercus (PHP) Rhino (JavaScript) Duke, the Java mascot Copyright © Sun Microsystems Inc., all rights reserved. Jython (Python)
- 29. Always free to get started -~5M pageviews/month 6.5 CPU hrs/day 1 GB storage 650K URL Fetch calls/day 2,000 recipients emailed 1 GB/day bandwidth 100,000 tasks enqueued 650K XMPP messages/day
- 32. App Engine Health History
- 33. 20+ months in review Apr 2008 Python launch May 2008 Memcache, Images API Jul 2008 Logs export Aug 2008 Batch write/delete Oct 2008 HTTPS support Dec 2008 Status dashboard, quota details Feb 2009 Billing, larger files Apr 2009 Java launch, DB import, cron support, SDC May 2009 Key-only queries Jun 2009 Task queues Aug 2009 Kindless queries Sep 2009 XMPP Oct 2009 Incoming Email Dec 2009 Blobstore Feb 2010 Datastore cursors
- 34. Happy Birthday App Engine! Two years old as of Wed April 7th! Vibrant community of over 250k developers Over 250 million pageviews http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2010/04/happy-birthday.html
- 35. Development Tools for App Engine
- 36. Google App Engine Launcher
- 37. SDK Console
- 38. Google Plugin for Eclipse
- 39. AppStats Win a T-shirt Upload before/after screenshots and link them on Twitter before May 2nd @app_engine #coolappstats
- 40. Demo time!
- 41. Wall demo App An adaption of the "Guest Book" Tutorial Application Uses: Datastore for comments/blobs Blobstore for initial image upload Image api for thumbnail creation XMPP - for chatbot access Also uses Maps API for geo features Post a comment at: http://cloudexpowall.appspot.com
- 42. Wall demo App Architecture
- 43. More Info on App Engine: http://code.google.com/appengine http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/ http://gae-java-persistence.blogspot.com/ http://bit.ly/gcodelabs
- 44. Q&A Contact info: Chris Schalk Developer Advocate http://twitter.com/cschalk