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Intro: Google App Engine & Appscale

This document discusses Google App Engine and AppScale. Google App Engine allows developers to build apps faster by hosting them on Google's servers and avoiding server maintenance. However, App Engine has limitations in the APIs it supports and where apps can be deployed. AppScale addresses these limitations by allowing App Engine apps to run on any cloud or in private data centers while supporting additional APIs. It also discusses how AppScale replicates key App Engine services like the datastore, task queues, and users API.

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Intro: Google App Engine & Appscale

This document discusses Google App Engine and AppScale. Google App Engine allows developers to build apps faster by hosting them on Google's servers and avoiding server maintenance. However, App Engine has limitations in the APIs it supports and where apps can be deployed. AppScale addresses these limitations by allowing App Engine apps to run on any cloud or in private data centers while supporting additional APIs. It also discusses how AppScale replicates key App Engine services like the datastore, task queues, and users API.

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intro

To
Google
app engine
&
Appscale
build apps
faster and
easier
developer
innovation
K
rapid
releases
Z
deploy and
scale on any
cloud
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Chris bunch
[email protected]
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>
a
common
pattern
One of several recurring
problems seen in the real
world today.

You have a cool idea

To make it into an app, you


need to:

Setup hardware

Congure, deploy app


services

And you have to do this


for every app!
www.appscale.com
Phone: +1(805) 845 0010 | e-mail: [email protected]
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Why not Amazon?
3

You dont want to deploy and maintain:

Servers

Load balancers

App Servers

Databases

And you dont want to hire people to do it!


www.appscale.com
Phone: +1(805) 845 0010 | e-mail: [email protected]
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google app engine
4

A web application hosting service

Never log into a server

Crystallizes web service best practices

Share common services between apps

Focus on writing your app


www.appscale.com
Phone: +1(805) 845 0010 | e-mail: [email protected]
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Supported Languages
5
Go
Python
Go
Java
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www.appscale.com
Phone: +1(805) 845 0010 | e-mail: [email protected]
Programming Model
(

6
Everything is a web request
Stateless, scalable web server, meaning:

No lesystem access

Persistence via Datastore / memcache

60 second time limit on requests

APIs from whitelist only


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www.appscale.com
Phone: +1(805) 845 0010 | e-mail: [email protected]
The DATAstore
7

Not a relational database, but resembles an


object database

You dene Kinds of data you want to store

Each object stored is an Entity

Entities can be arranged into Groups


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Defining a kind
8
class Person(ndb.Model):
user = ndb.UserProperty()
balance = ndb.FloatProperty()
phone = ndb.StringProperty()
last_login = ndb.DateTimeProperty()
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Phone: +1(805) 845 0010 | e-mail: [email protected]
EXTENDING a kind
9
class Person(ndb.Model):
user = ndb.UserProperty()
balance = ndb.FloatProperty()
phone = ndb.StringProperty()
last_login = ndb.DateTimeProperty()
login_location = ndb.GeoPt()
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www.appscale.com
Phone: +1(805) 845 0010 | e-mail: [email protected]
Kind, entities
10
class Person(ndb.Model):
...
new_person = Person()
new_person.put()
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www.appscale.com
Phone: +1(805) 845 0010 | e-mail: [email protected]
transactions
11

Updating an Entity happens in a Transaction

Apps tell App Engine which Entities will be updated together by putting
them into an Entity Group

Transactions can only occur within an Entity Group*


def f():
person = db.get(key1)
person.balance = 100.00
person.put()
db.run_in_transaction(f)
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www.appscale.com
Phone: +1(805) 845 0010 | e-mail: [email protected]
memcache
12
data = memcache.get(key)
if data:
return data
else:
data = db.get(key)
memcache.set(key, data, 300)
return data
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www.appscale.com
Phone: +1(805) 845 0010 | e-mail: [email protected]
users
13
user = users.get_current_user()
if user:
return user.nickname()
else:
return None
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www.appscale.com
Phone: +1(805) 845 0010 | e-mail: [email protected]
mail
14
from = Chris Bunch <[email protected]>
to= You <[email protected]>
subject = Try out AppScale!
body = http://download.appscale.com
mail.send_mail(sender=from, to=to, subject=subject,
body=body)
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www.appscale.com
Phone: +1(805) 845 0010 | e-mail: [email protected]
task queue
15
taskqueue.add(url=/path/to/worker)
cron:
- description: sends friendly emails
url: /path/to/worker
schedule: every 24 hours
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www.appscale.com
Phone: +1(805) 845 0010 | e-mail: [email protected]
url fetch
16
r = urlfetch.fetch(http://www.google.com/)
if r.status_code == 200:
do_something_with_result(r.content)
else:
# retry later
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www.appscale.com
Phone: +1(805) 845 0010 | e-mail: [email protected]
xmpp
17
user = [email protected]
msg = Hello there!
status = xmpp.send_message(user, msg)
if status != xmpp.NO_ERROR:
# decide what to do with the failed msg
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www.appscale.com
Phone: +1(805) 845 0010 | e-mail: [email protected]
enter appscale
18

But what if you need:

To fail over to a private cloud?

To run your App Engine app in-house?

To use APIs App Engine doesnt support?

Then you need AppScale!


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www.appscale.com
Phone: +1(805) 845 0010 | e-mail: [email protected]
run anywhere
19
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www.appscale.com
Phone: +1(805) 845 0010 | e-mail: [email protected]
datastore
20

Supports NoSQL datastores via a database


agnostic API:

get

put

range_query

delete
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www.appscale.com
Phone: +1(805) 845 0010 | e-mail: [email protected]
we have supported
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www.appscale.com
Phone: +1(805) 845 0010 | e-mail: [email protected]
now focusing on...
22
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www.appscale.com
Phone: +1(805) 845 0010 | e-mail: [email protected]
load balancing + app servers
23
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www.appscale.com
Phone: +1(805) 845 0010 | e-mail: [email protected]
API Services
24
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www.appscale.com
Phone: +1(805) 845 0010 | e-mail: [email protected]
the development cycle
25

App Engine SDK for rapid development

Limitations:

Many APIs are stubbed out (XMPP, Mail)

Not designed for production workloads

Use AppScale!
Demo

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