Part I: Introduction to Cloud Computing - What is Cloud Computing? - Classification of Cloud Computing Part II: Introduction to Google App Engine - What is Google App Engine? - Why Google App Engine? - Core APIs & Language Support - Google App Engine for Business - Google App Engine Customers - Q&A

1. Introduction to
Google App Engine
Chakkrit Tantithanthavorn #GAEseminar by SWPark
kla@chakkrit.com 7 June 2012
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3. Quick Survey
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4. Quick Survey
• Heard of Cloud Computing before today?
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5. Quick Survey
• Heard of Cloud Computing before today?
• Heard of App Engine before today?
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6. Quick Survey
• Heard of Cloud Computing before today?
• Heard of App Engine before today?
• Installed App Engine SDK?
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7. Quick Survey
• Heard of Cloud Computing before today?
• Heard of App Engine before today?
• Installed App Engine SDK?
• Started a sample app on localhost?
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8. Quick Survey
• Heard of Cloud Computing before today?
• Heard of App Engine before today?
• Installed App Engine SDK?
• Started a sample app on localhost?
• Deployed an app to App Engine?
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9. Quick Survey
• Heard of Cloud Computing before today?
• Heard of App Engine before today?
• Installed App Engine SDK?
• Started a sample app on localhost?
• Deployed an app to App Engine?
• Plan to use App Engine for production?
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10. Quick Survey
• Heard of Cloud Computing before today?
• Heard of App Engine before today?
• Installed App Engine SDK?
• Started a sample app on localhost?
• Deployed an app to App Engine?
• Plan to use App Engine for production?
• Already using App Engine in production?
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11. Agenda
• Part I: Introduction to Cloud Computing
• What is Cloud Computing?
• Classification of Cloud Computing
• Part II: Introduction to Google App Engine
• What is Google App Engine?
• Why Google App Engine?
• Core APIs & Language Support
• Google App Engine for Business
• Google App Engine Customers
• Q&A
Time: 9:15-10:15
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12. What is Cloud Computing?
National Institute Of Standard and Technology
Definition of Cloud Computing:
Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-
demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing
resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services)
that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management
effort or service provider interaction.
Ref: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-145/SP800-145.pdf
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13. What is Cloud Computing?
Cloud Computing like Power Grid.
source: goo.gl/yI7Dd 6

14. Classification of Cloud Computing
Source: Gartner AADI Summit Dec 2009
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15. Classification of Cloud Computing
Your Applications
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16. 5 Key Cloud Characteristics
• On-demand self-service
• Ubiquitous network access
• Location independent resource pooling
• Rapid elasticity
• Pay per use
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17. What is Google App Engine?
• Google’s Platform to build Web applications on the cloud
• Dynamic Web Server, with full support to common web
technologies
• Automatic scaling and local balancing
• SQL and NoSQL DataStore Model
• Integration with Google Account through APIs
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18. Why Google App Engine?
• Auto Scaling - No need to over provision
• Static Files - Static files use Google’s CDN
• Easy Logs - View logs in web console
• Easy Deployment - Literally 1-click deploy
• Free Quota - 99% of apps will pay nothing
• Affordable Scaling - Prices better than AWS
• No config - No need to config OS or servers
• Easy Security - Google patches OS/servers
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19. Google App Engine
• Easy to build
Local SDK - Java, Python, Go
Lots of APIs
• Easy to maintain
Admin Console
Site Reliability Engineer
• Easy to scale
Google scale infrastructure
No limits to how much data you can push in the database
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20. Scalability
• Vertical Scalability
• Horizontal Scalability
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21. Life of a request
App App’s
User Engine Runtime
Front-End
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22. Scalability
User
User
App’s
Runtime
User
App App’s
User Engine Runtime
Front-End
User
User App’s
User Runtime
Dynamically / Automatically
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23. Core APIs
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24. Languages Support
• Python v2.5, v2.7
• Java 5, Java 6
• Go
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25. Development Life Cycle
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26. Admin Console
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27. Google App Engine for Business
• Enterprise application management
• Centralized domain console
• Enterprise reliability and support
• Service Level Agreement
• Direct support
• Hosted SQL
• Relational SQL database in the cloud
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28. Google App Engine for Business
• SSL on your domain
• Secure by default
• Integrated Single Sign On (SSO)
• Pricing that makes sense
• Apps cost $9 per user, up to $500 max per
month
• http://www.google.com/enterprise/cloud/
appengine/pricing.html
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29. Google App Engine for Business
Google App Engine - Pricing and Features
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30. Common type of GAE apps
• Mobile/Tablet
• App backends
• Cloud persistence
• Social/Mobile Games
• Speed, scale
• API integrations
• Consumer Web Apps
• Unpredictable traffic
• Scale
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31. App Engine Restrictions
• Read-only access to file system
• Applications cannot create new threads
• 60 second deadline per request/response
• Free up to 5GB of storage serving ~5M pageviews/month
• Further Information: https://developers.google.com/
appengine/docs/quotas
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32. App Engine Customers
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33. Social networking at scale
source: goo.gl/rs4WN 26

34. Angry Birds
We didn't want to compromise on performance," he said.
"We haven't been able to bring this to the Web. It hasn't
been possible until today. We are bringing Angry Birds to
the biggest platform out there, the Web.
27 http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-20061878-266.html

35. Chillingo Crystal
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36. The Royal Wedding
Peaked at 32,000 requests per second w/o disruption!
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37. Acknowledgement
• Thanks to Software Park Thailand and Google Inc.
• Thanks to Google Developer Group Thailand (GDG.in.th)
• All contents in this slides has inspired by many talented
people.
• Thanks to David Chandler, http://www.slideshare.net/
turbomanage/google-app-engine-update-2012
• Thanks to Rajdeep Dua. http://www.slideshare.net/
rajdeep/introduction-to-google-app-engine-presentation
• Thanks to Robin Bhattacharyya. http://
www.slideshare.net/robinb123/gentle-app-engine-intro
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38. Thank you for your
attention.
Chakkrit Tantithanthavorn #GAEseminar by SWPark
kla@chakkrit.com 7 June 2012
http://www.chakkrit.com/gae-seminar/
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