Our slides for Agency Developer Day at Google NYC

1. Google App Engine
Ikai Lan
plus.ikailan.com
NYC Agency Day!
July 25, 2011
Monday, July 25, 2011

2. About the speaker
• Ikai Lan
• Developer Relations at Google based out
of San Francisco, CA
• Twitter: @ikai
• Google+: plus.ikailan.com
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3. Agenda
• What is Google App Engine?
• Anatomy of an App Engine application
• Demo app and questions
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4. What is App Engine?
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5. Software
Platform
Infrastructure
Source: Gartner AADI Summit Dec 2009
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6. Software
Platform
Infrastructure
Source: Gartner AADI Summit Dec 2009
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7. Software
Platform
Infrastructure
Source: Gartner AADI Summit Dec 2009
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8. Software
Platform
Infrastructure
Source: Gartner AADI Summit Dec 2009
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9. Software
Platform
Infrastructure
Source: Gartner AADI Summit Dec 2009
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10. Software
Platform
Infrastructure
Source: Gartner AADI Summit Dec 2009
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11. SDK & “The Cloud”
Hardware
Networking
Operating system
Application runtime
Java, Python, Go
Static file serving
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12. Development Cycle
Write code Test locally
Administer via Push to Google
web console servers
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13. Admin Console
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14. Scales dynamically
App
Server
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15. Scales dynamically
App
Server
App
Server
App
Server
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16. Easy to build
Easy to manage
Easy to scale
Google App Engine
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17. Google App Engine
“We wear pagers so
you don’t have to”
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18. Duke, the Java mascot
Go Gopher Copyright © Sun Microsystems Inc., all rights reserved.
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19. Extended Language support
through JVM
• Java
• Scala
• JRuby (Ruby)
• Groovy Duke, the Java mascot
Copyright © Sun Microsystems Inc., all rights reserved.
• Quercus (PHP)
• Rhino (JavaScript)
• Jython (Python)
• Clojure
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20. >100K Developers
>200K Apps
>1.5B daily pageviews
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21. Customer: WebFilings
Disruptive multi-tenant App Engine application adopted by
Fortune 500 companies.
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22. Customer: Optimizely
Y-Combinator funded startup now processing 250M events
through App Engine
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23. Customer: Gri!pe
Mobile app backend - Used App Engine to rapidly scale to serve
traffic spikes from industry press and appearance on The View
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24. Customer: The Royal Wedding
Peaked at 32,000 requests per second with no disruption!
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25. Anatomy of an App
Engine application
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26. Bloggart
Open Source Python Blog that
runs on App Engine
https://github.com/Arachnid/
bloggart
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27. Core APIs
Memcache Datastore URL Fetch
Mail XMPP Task Queue
Images Blobstore User Service
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28. Blog post storage
General caching
Long running
background jobs
Bloggart
Admin authentication
Comments via
Disqus API
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29. App Engine
Datastore
Schemaless, non-relational
datastore built on top of
Google’s Bigtable technology
Enables rapid development
and scalability
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30. High Replication
• strongly consistent
• multi datacenter
• High reliability
• consistent
performance
• no data loss
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31. More features
• Prospective Search API
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/
python/prospectivesearch/
• High Performance Image API
• App Engine Mapreduce
• Pipeline API
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32. Summary
• Let App Engine drive for you - worry about
where you are going
• App Engine enables rapid development
cycles without sacrificing scalability or
reliability
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33. Rude Responder
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34. Questions?
• Twitter: @ikai
• Google+: plus.ikailan.com
• App Engine: http://code.google.com/
appengine
• Rude Responder: http://code.google.com/p/
rude-responder/
Monday, July 25, 2011