Using Google App Engine.2009.pdf

Using Google App Engine by Charles Severance Published by O’Reilly Media, Inc., May 2009: First Edition. In April 2008, Google announced a product called App Engine. When you write a program for the Web that runs on App Engine, your software runs on the Google servers somewhere in the Google “cloud.” It is as if you are a Google employee and you have access to the entire scalable Google infrastructure. App Engine captures much of Google’s experience of building fast, reliable, and scalable websites, and through App Engine, Google is revealing many of the secrets about how its own applications scale to millions of users.