Code in the Cloud

Book Description
One of the most exciting recent changes in the computing world is cloud computing. Cloud computing is a dramatic shift in how applications are developed and used鈥攁nd even in what applications are. With cloud computing, developers are no longer building applications that run on a user鈥檚 desktop computer. Instead, they鈥檙e building services on the network that can be used by thousands of users at the same time.

Cloud services are an exciting opportunity for developers: the cloud is a platform for creating services, a new kind of application that can reach more users, and provide those users with more capabilities than a desktop application ever could. Building applications as cloud services also makes them scalable: cloud applications can easily and smoothly adapt from running on a single computer for a single user to running on thousands of computers for millions of users.

Code in the Cloud will teach you what a cloud service is, and how it differs from traditional applications. It will show you how to build a cloud service, taking advantage of the services that AppEngine makes available to you, using iterative development of a simple application to guide you through the different aspects of AppEngine development, using either Python or Java.

Through the process of working on a simple application, you鈥檒l learn about how to build an application as a service; how to manage persistent data using AppEngine; how to build dynamic, interactive user interfaces that run in a user鈥檚 web-browser; how to manage security in a web application; and how to interact with other services running in the AppEngine cloud.

About the Author
Mark Chu-Carroll is a software engineer at Google. He鈥檚 been working on programming languages and software development tools for close to 20 years. In his free time, he鈥檚 the administrator/developer of Scientopia.org, where writes the blog Good Math/Bad Math. You can visit his blog at http://scientopia.org/blogs/goodmath.

Book Details

    * Paperback: 320 pages
    * Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf (April 2011)
    * Language: English
    * ISBN-10: 1934356638
    * ISBN-13: 978-1934356630

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