Programming Google App Engine with Python: Build and Run Scalable Python Apps on Google's Infrastructure 1st Edition

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This practical guide shows intermediate and advanced web and mobile app developers how to build highly scalable Python applications in the cloud with Google App Engine. The flagship of Google's Cloud Platform, App Engine hosts your app on infrastructure that grows automatically with your traffic, minimizing up-front costs and accommodating unexpected visitors. You’ll learn hands-on how to perform common development tasks with App Engine services and development tools, including deployment and maintenance.

App Engine's Python support includes a fast Python 2.7 interpreter, the standard library, and a WSGI-based runtime environment. Choose from many popular web application frameworks, including Django and Flask.

Get a hands-on introduction to App Engine's tools and features, using an example application
Simulate App Engine on your development machine with tools from Google Cloud SDK
Structure your app into individually addressable modules, each with its own scaling configuration
Exploit the power of the scalable Cloud Datastore, using queries, transactions, and data modeling with the ndb library
Use Cloud SQL for standard relational databases with App Engine applications
Learn how to deploy, manage, and inspect your application on Google infrastructure

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Dan Sanderson is a technical writer and software engineer at Google Inc. He has worked in the web industry for over 10 years as a software engineer and technical writer for Google, Amazon.com, and the Walt Disney Internet Group. He lives in Seattle, Washington. For more information about Dan, visit his website at http://www.dansanderson.com.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media; 1st edition (July 21, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 464 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1491900253
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1491900253
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.72 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 1.05 x 9.19 inches

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Don't bother

Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2016

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Insufficient as any sort of practical introductory guide. The authors seem to have a very poor idea of how to use examples. There are virtually no whole projects. Subjects are dealt with in such a compartmentalized fashion that the reader is overly challenged when trying to place them all together.

If you're like me, you look for books that will take you through entire projects (either one per chapter, or one that grows throughout the book, or a combination of both). This book is very clumsy when it comes to examples, and laborious when it comes to explanations.

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M. Mangal

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Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2016

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Great book to learn all the supported features in the app engine.

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Mattress Mack

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Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2015

Google App Engine with Python is a significant improvement over the previous edition, Google App Engine, 2nd Edition. This is more than just a pasting of the Python sections of the previous edition into a separate book. This edition is more beginner-friendly because more effort is expended on explaining the setup and configuration of App Engine. Furthermore, the previous topics have been updated with the latest features of App Engine and expanded with clearer explanation of the concepts.

The expanded coverage about the Datastore is alone, worth this purchase, and underscores the difference in depth between a book and online documentation. This edition presents the most comprehensive coverage of App Engine for Python and the author's growth in authorship is apparent from edition to edition. Four thumbs up.

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Dave

Very good overview in need of an update

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 19, 2018

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This book was very useful to me as I started to write python apps hosted on GAE, particularly the extensive coverage of the datastore and modelling, filtering and sorting concepts.
A word of caution though - the book is a few years old now and GAE moves on rapidly, the book desperately needs an update. For example, the book uses the 'appcfg' command syntax for deploying applications which is now deprecated in favour of 'gcloud'.
Overall there isn't much not covered in this book, it would just benefit from a new revision and some additional examples, perhaps with each chapter having its own examples available on GitHub.

Debbie

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 24, 2016

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Even better than the First Edition with coverage of ndb and improved clarity of explanations.

Kamil Szabo

Interesting but outdated

Reviewed in Germany on July 22, 2020

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Before purchase, I did not notice this book (or at least this particular release of it) is for Appengine Python v2. This version is no longer fully supported and lots of the examples were not applicable, to a degree that half of the book is useless. I still learned a few tricks, grasped a few concepts here and there, but this book need a big update.

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Pietro

Good book

Reviewed in Italy on February 26, 2017

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A little confusing in the order of arguments . Some times I had problems following the book and I had to go forward , coming back aftervsome chapters.

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