This book is about how to design, build, deploy, and manage Google App Engine applications efficiently.
Large scale, high availability application development was a dark art until the
release of Google App Engine. It involved balancing (and sometimes pitting) the
programmers’ skills against the application requirements and the underlying
infrastructure. Google App Engine frees us, the developers, from most concerns
about the infrastructure so that we can focus on coding and delivering useful
software. It empowers us to develop complex applications with a simple and
elegant API, using robust programming tools like Python, and leveraging the
sophisticated data storage, searching and caching technologies that helped
Google to succeed. This is cloud computing made easy and it enables us to
create high availability Software as a Service without excessive overhead or
infrastructure worries.
