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Developing in Google App Engine

Introduced spring of 2008, Google App Engine is Google’s entrant into the cloud computing market and lets you run your web applications on Google's infrastructure. Google App Engine applications automatically scale as your traffic and data storage needs grow. You can share your applications with the world or limit access to members of your enterprise. Google App Engine applications can use up to 1 GB of storage and enough CPU and bandwidth to support apps serving around 5 million page views a month, absolutely free. With Google App Engine you only pay for resources you use above the free levels.

In this hands-on course, students will learn the fundamentals of Google App Engine and its infrastructure services through a mixture of lectures, demonstrations, and exercises. By the end of the course students will have enough hands-on experience with Google App Engine to be able to create and deploy their own scalable web applications.

Course Brochure

LEARN HOW TO

Understand how Google’s infrastructure services work together to form scalable web applications
Build and deploy simple web applications to Google’s cloud
Get hands-on training with each service using the APIs and Google’s management console
Understand trade-offs of Google’s infrastructure services and how they compare to other cloud platforms

AGENDA

What is Google App Engine?

App Engine Development
Disributed Data Storage
App Engine Services
Pricing

Getting Started with Google App Engine

Create App Engine Account
Using Eclipse
Using App Engine Tools

Deploying Static Web Application

Deploy Simple Website
Administration Console

Deploying Dynamic Web Application

Servlets, JSPs and WARs
Logging in the Cloud
Guestbook Application
Quotas and Limits

Serve Apps From Your Own Domain

Google Apps
Domain Configuration
Using Sub-Domains
Restricting Access

Distribute Data Storage

Datastore concepts
Using Java Data Objects (JDO)
Using Java Persistence API (JPA)
Datastore Viewer

App Engine Services

URL Fetch
Mail
Memcache
Image Manipulation
Scheduled Tasks
XMPP

Experimental Features

Blobstore
Task Queues

Tradeoffs

Advantages and Disadvantages
App Engine vs. Amazon Web Services
App Engine vs. Microsoft Azure

Is This Course For You?

This course is meant for Java developers who want to understand Google’s cloud computing services and how to deploy their applications in Google’s cloud. Basic Java web development experience and familiarity with the open-source Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE) are required for this course.