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Google App Engine (GAE) is commonly defined as a platform as a service (PaaS) part of Google Cloud Platform. The definition of such a service is based on the level of resources managed by the platform. Unlike infrastructure as a service (IaaS) or back end as a service (BaaS)—which primarily manage maintenance tasks such as hardware replacement—with a service like App Engine you do not need to care of things like load balancing, instance management or scaling, and so on. Think of it from a duty standpoint. When using IaaS, your responsibility begins with the operating system, whereas in PaaS, your responsibility starts with the code for your application.
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The article “NDB Asynchronous Operation” explains how to take advantage of using asynchronous directives in your application: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/ndb/async .
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All the examples used in this book are publicly available in repositories for the user GoogleCloudPlatformBook in GitHub: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatformBook .
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Joe Gregorio, “Sharding Counters,” Google Inc., 2008, https://cloud.google.com/appengine/articles/sharding_counters .
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“Using compare and set in Python,” Google Inc., 2015, https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/memcache/#Python_Using_compare_and_set_in_Python .
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“geomodel: Indexing and Querying Geospatial Data in App Engine,” https://pypi.python.org/pypi/geomodel .
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Amy Unruh, “Getting Started with the Python Search API, Google Inc., 2015, https://cloud.google.com/appengine/training/fts_intro .
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elastic, https://www.elastic.co .
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“Using Pull Queues in Python,” Google Inc., 2015, https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/taskqueue/overview-pull .
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“Using Pull Queues in Java,” Google Inc., 2015, https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/java/taskqueue/overview-pull .
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“Using Pull Queues in Go,” Google Inc., 2015, https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/go/taskqueue/overview-pull .
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“List of tz Database Time Zones” (in their standard form), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones .
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Stack Overflow is the leading question-and-answer site for professional programmers: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/google-app-engine .
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“Google App Engine: Platform as a Service,” official documentation, https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs .
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Dan Sanderson, Programming Google App Engine, 2nd ed, O’Reilly Media, 2012.
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Krishnan, S.P.T., Gonzalez, J.L.U. (2015). Google App Engine. In: Building Your Next Big Thing with Google Cloud Platform. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1004-8_5
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