Python for Google App Engine

by Massimiliano Pippi

Overview

Google App Engine is a key component of the Google Cloud Platform and one of the most comprehensive cloud services. Together with Python, the first programming language ever supported by the platform, Google App Engine favors rapid development, significantly contributing to the success of your projects.

This book will guide you through the Google Cloud Platform starting from the basics all the way through successfully designing, building, and running modern and scalable web applications in Python with Google App Engine. From authentication to data storage, and from asynchronous jobs to server push techniques, you will learn how to use services such as datastore, cloud storage, Cloud SQL, task queues and channels in a Python application based on web frameworks such as Webapp2 and Django. As the topics in this book are covered in a step-by-step fashion, you will get to grips with the information quickly and easily.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781784392376
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	01/27/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	198
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Massimiliano Pippi has been a software developer for over 10 years, more than half of which he spent working with scientific visualization and backend software for a private company, using C++ and Qt technologies. He started using Python in 2008 and currently works at Evonove, a small company where he has been leading a number of Python software projects, most of which are based on the Django web framework. He is also an open source advocate and active contributor, documentation fanatic, and speaker at conferences. He writes about Python and other development-related topics at http://dev.pippi.im.