Wednesday 24 February 2016

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Google App Engine

Question: What is Google App Engine?
Google App Engine is a platform as a service (PaaS).
It provides cloud computing platform for developing and hosting web applications in Google-managed data centers.
It is also know as GAE.


Question: When comes stable version of Google App Engine?
1.9.26 / 4 September 2015


Question: Which Programming languages support by GAE ?
Python, Java, Go, PHP and coming others

Question: What is Offical website for GAE?
http://cloud.google.com/appengine


Question: Why GAE is used?
It is used to develop the Web Application, APIs for Mobile, Web Application.


Question: What are different built-in services available?
  1. NoSQL datastores
  2. memcache
  3. user authentication API


Question: What are benefits of using GAI
  1. Load Balancing
  2. Health Checks
  3. Application logging
  4. Automatic Scaling
  5. Automated Security Scanning


Question: What are different IDE available with GAE
Eclipse, IntelliJ, Maven, Git, Jenkins, and PyCharm.


Question: Is it free?
Yes, It is free upto few Level.
Check here for details https://cloud.google.com/appengine/


Question: What is Difference between Google Apps and Google App engine(GAE) ?
Google Apps: It is Web-based hosted software-as-a-service (SaaS).
For Example: gmail.com, Gtalk, Google calender

Google App engine: It is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS).
Here you can host your Website and Website APps.
For Example: It is similar to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).


Question: What are the steps to start with Google App Engine?
  1. Download the App Engine SDK for PHP
  2. Creating a Simple Request Handler
  3. Create the Configuration File
  4. Testing the Application
  5. Iterative Development
  6. Uploading the application
  7. Done
For Details : https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/php/



Question: How to start the PHP development in Google Engine App?
  1. Registering an app on GAE. https://appengine.google.com/
  2. Download the Google App Engine from https://cloud.google.com/appengine/downloads#Google_App_Engine_SDK_for_PHP
  3. Starting a project with IDE
  4. create main.php and app.yaml files
  5. Test your application
  6. Upload to Server

http://www.sitepoint.com/google-app-engine-php-getting-started/
for PHP, You have to install Python 2.7 Version From https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-2711/


Question: Where can i check my PHP Code?
http://localhost:8080/