Google App Engine 101
Time: Aug 29, 10:00 a.m.
Location: SI 067
Google launched the App Engine service earlier this year to immense interest from the web development community. App Engine allows running applications on Google infrastructure, including BigTable, Google's non-relational, massively scalable database. App Engine is appealing both at the low end, where small shops don't want to have to deal with hardware procurement and systems administration, and at the high end, where the kind of "instant scaling" App Engine promises to deal with bursty traffic is the holy grail of infrastructure planning. This tutorial will cover the basics of App Engine development, including development and deployment of a simple application. If time permits we will cover some more advanced aspects of the SDK, such as the caching API. Please sign up for an App Engine account and download the SDK ahead of time so we can jump right in to the code. Basic Python knowledge will be assumed. If you are already an experienced programmer, I recommend "Dive Into Python." If you str s complete novice, I recommend "Python for Dummies," which despite the name really is the best basic text I've seen. And if you are somewhere in between, I recommend "Learning Python," 3rd ed. "Dive into Python" is available in print and free on the web; the others are only available in print.
About Jonathan Ellis
Jonathan Ellis
Jonathan Ellis recently left Mozy, Inc., where he wrote a storage system similar to Amazon S3 to store petabytes of backup data. Jonathan is the author of the SqlSoup extension to SQLAlchemy and the president of the Utah Python User Group.
