This is a presentation on Google App Engine given at the Cloud Futures 2010 conference in Seattle hosted by Microsoft Research.

1. Google App Engine Overview
Chris Schalk
Developer Advocate
http://twitter.com/cschalk

2. What is
cloud
computing?
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3. Cloud Computing Defined
SaaS
APaaS
IaaS
Source: Gartner AADI Summit Dec 2009
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4. IaaS value proposition…
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5. APaaS value proposition…
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6. Google App Engine
• Easy to build
• Easy to maintain
• Easy to scale
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7. By the numbers
250M+
100,000+
250,000+
daily
Developers
Apps
Pageviews
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8. In a word… via Wordle
Word source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Engine
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9. Some App Engine Partners
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10. Socialwok
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11. App Engine @
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12. Social networking at scale
>62M Users
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13. gigy Socialize
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14. gigy Socialize
Flexible Scalability
"Although we typically host all our services in-house,
on our own infrastructure, we felt that GAE would be a better fit
for the live chat feature because of its unique traffic pattern, which
is characterized by very low traffic most of the time with very high
bursts during high profile events."
Raviv Pavel, Gigya VP of Research and Development
http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2010/02/scalability-means-flexibility.html#links
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15. Why App Engine?
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16. Managing Everything is Hard
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18. DIY Hos<ng means hidden costs
• Idle capacity
• So>ware patches & upgrades
• License fees
• Lots of maintenance
• Traffic & u<liza<on forecas<ng
• Upgrades
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19. Cloud development in a box
SDK & “The Cloud”
Hardware
Networking
Operating system
Application runtime
Java, Python
Static file serving
Services
Fault tolerance
Load balancing
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20. App Engine Details
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21. Specialized Services
Memcache Datastore URL Fetch
Mail XMPP Task Queue
Images Blobstore User Service
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22. Language runtimes
Duke, the Java mascot
Copyright © Sun Microsystems Inc., all rights reserved.
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23. Ensuring Portability
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24. Extended Language support
through JVM
• Java
• Scala
• JRuby (Ruby)
• Groovy
• Quercus (PHP)
• Rhino (JavaScript) Duke, the Java mascot
Copyright © Sun Microsystems Inc., all rights reserved.
• Jython (Python)
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25. Always free to get started
‐~5M pageviews/month
– 6.5 CPU hrs/day
– 1 GB storage
– 650K URL Fetch calls/day
– 2,000 recipients emailed
– 1 GB/day bandwidth
– 100,000 tasks enqueued
– 650K XMPP messages/day
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26. Application Platform Management
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27. App Engine Dashboard
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28. App Engine Health History
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29. Development Tools for App Engine
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30. Google App Engine Launcher
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31. SDK Console
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32. Google Plugin for Eclipse
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33. 20+ months in review
Apr 2008
Python launch
May 2008
Memcache, Images API
Jul 2008
Logs export
Aug 2008
Batch write/delete
Oct 2008
HTTPS support
Dec 2008
Status dashboard, quota details
Feb 2009
Billing, larger files
Apr 2009
Java launch, DB import, cron support, SDC
May 2009
Key-only queries
Jun 2009
Task queues
Aug 2009
Kindless queries
Sep 2009
XMPP
Oct 2009
Incoming Email
Dec 2009
Blobstore
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Datastore cursors

34. Happy Birthday App Engine!
• Two years old as of Wed April 7th!
• Vibrant community of over 250k developers
• Over 250 million pageviews
• http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2010/04/happy-birthday.html
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35. Demos!
• Dashboard
• AppLauncher, Eclipse Plugin
• “Cloud Futures 2010 Wall” Demo App
• Codelab details
• bit.ly/gcodelabs
• See: “App Engine”
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36. Cloud Futures 2010 Wall demo App
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37. More Info on App Engine:
• http://code.google.com/appengine
• http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/
• http://gae-java-persistence.blogspot.com/
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38. Questions/Contact info
Twitter
• twitter.com/cschalk
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