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This document summarizes Django on App Engine, Google's platform that allows developers to build and host web applications in the cloud. It describes App Engine's core features like automatic scaling, pay-as-you-go pricing, and access to Google's infrastructure and APIs. The document also highlights how Django, a popular Python web framework, can be used to develop applications on App Engine for its rapid development capabilities, powerful templates, and security features. Real-world examples of applications built by Potato using these technologies are also provided.

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Django on App Engine http://p.ota.to @potatobristol
Speaking today ben@p.ota.to ● Heads up Potato Bristol ● Come and say hello! adam@p.ota.to ● Leads a Google project team in London ● Expert on our technologies
Who are Potato? ● Part of Google’s Creative Lab ● Work for Google, BBH, Mother, PayPal... ● Developer focussed ● ‘Whatever works’, no heavy process ● Based in London, Bristol, San Francisco, Amsterdam ● 60 people growing fast, 9 in Bristol
Our infrastructure is...
A connection to the interwebs!
Our apps serve More than 35,000,000 requests per day.
Our apps serve More than 35,000,000 requests per day. (On a boring day.)
Our apps serve More than 200,000,000 requests per day on an exciting day. That's about 2300 requests per second.
What sort of apps? ● Small, rapidly developed, short-lived apps ● Large-scale, long-lived products ● Internal secret tools ● World famous, high traffic sites
Django on app engine
Map Your Valentine ● Built in 4 days ● Live for 1 week ● Featured on Google.com home page
Django on app engine
Google Engage ● Intelligent distribution system for Google AdWords coupons ● Live for 1.5 years, and counting... ● 70 countries ● 40 languages ● We're not allowed to say any more!
Bristol?
Potato Bristol ● Own our own projects ● Help with London projects (and vice versa) ● The ‘Bristol Effect’ ● Such as...
Django on app engine
Google for Veterans ● Very complex apps ● Very high profile launch ● Mentioned on the White House blog ● Recommended by the First Lady
Django on app engine
Secret Policeman's Ball ● Huge profile ● Complex social platform integration ● Withstood tweets from Steven Fry and Chris Martin
Django on app engine
Versus Debates ● Live YouTube channel ● Google+ Hangouts ● Scalable live ‘mood meter’
How?
App Engine
What is it? ● Cloud based app server ● Google's infrastructure ● Powerful APIs and tools
Cloud based ● App centric (not machine centric) ● No server maintenance ● Automatically scales (up and down) ● Only pay for what you use ● High replication ● Control panel
Google infrastructure ● Reliability, security, performance ● Global CDN ● URL fetch ● Mail ● Country in request ● Google Accounts (and OpenID) ● Images API ● Cloud storage ● Docs (app as user) ● Loads more APIs and tools...
Your app ● Datastore (noSQL, schemaless) ● Cloud SQL ● Blobstore ● Memcache ● Backends ● Task queue scheduled and deferred tasks ● Choice of Java or Python, so...
Django on app engine
Rapid development ● Written in Python ● Sets up database from your code ● Generic views ● Powerful forms ● Admin system which builds itself
Powerful templates ● Keeps your HTML tidy, with logic separate and re-usable ● Auto-escaping ● Nestable (extend/include other templates) ● Built-in formatting: date, re-grouping, thousand commas, timesince, yesno ● Odd/even/last flags in loops ● Extensible
Security ● Auto-escaping ● CSRF ● SQL injection ● Clickjacking
Other cool things ● Multiple databases - abstracted by powerful ORM ● Flexible URL mapping ● MVT framework - keeps things tidy ● i18n ● It's WSGI compliant
The best thing! ● You can throw it all away. ○ Pluggable, extensible everything. Use it, customise it, or roll your own. ○ ...so it’s easy to develop your prototype into the finished product.
Finally...
Django on app engine
Django on app engine
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Any questions? ben@p.ota.to adam@p.ota.to jobs@p.ota.to http://p.ota.to @potatobristol

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Django on app engine

  • 1. Django on App Engine http://p.ota.to @potatobristol
  • 2. Speaking today ben@p.ota.to ● Heads up Potato Bristol ● Come and say hello! adam@p.ota.to ● Leads a Google project team in London ● Expert on our technologies
  • 3. Who are Potato? ● Part of Google’s Creative Lab ● Work for Google, BBH, Mother, PayPal... ● Developer focussed ● ‘Whatever works’, no heavy process ● Based in London, Bristol, San Francisco, Amsterdam ● 60 people growing fast, 9 in Bristol
  • 5. A connection to the interwebs!
  • 6. Our apps serve More than 35,000,000 requests per day.
  • 7. Our apps serve More than 35,000,000 requests per day. (On a boring day.)
  • 8. Our apps serve More than 200,000,000 requests per day on an exciting day. That's about 2300 requests per second.
  • 9. What sort of apps? ● Small, rapidly developed, short-lived apps ● Large-scale, long-lived products ● Internal secret tools ● World famous, high traffic sites
  • 11. Map Your Valentine ● Built in 4 days ● Live for 1 week ● Featured on Google.com home page
  • 13. Google Engage ● Intelligent distribution system for Google AdWords coupons ● Live for 1.5 years, and counting... ● 70 countries ● 40 languages ● We're not allowed to say any more!
  • 15. Potato Bristol ● Own our own projects ● Help with London projects (and vice versa) ● The ‘Bristol Effect’ ● Such as...
  • 17. Google for Veterans ● Very complex apps ● Very high profile launch ● Mentioned on the White House blog ● Recommended by the First Lady
  • 19. Secret Policeman's Ball ● Huge profile ● Complex social platform integration ● Withstood tweets from Steven Fry and Chris Martin
  • 21. Versus Debates ● Live YouTube channel ● Google+ Hangouts ● Scalable live ‘mood meter’
  • 22. How?
  • 24. What is it? ● Cloud based app server ● Google's infrastructure ● Powerful APIs and tools
  • 25. Cloud based ● App centric (not machine centric) ● No server maintenance ● Automatically scales (up and down) ● Only pay for what you use ● High replication ● Control panel
  • 26. Google infrastructure ● Reliability, security, performance ● Global CDN ● URL fetch ● Mail ● Country in request ● Google Accounts (and OpenID) ● Images API ● Cloud storage ● Docs (app as user) ● Loads more APIs and tools...
  • 27. Your app ● Datastore (noSQL, schemaless) ● Cloud SQL ● Blobstore ● Memcache ● Backends ● Task queue scheduled and deferred tasks ● Choice of Java or Python, so...
  • 29. Rapid development ● Written in Python ● Sets up database from your code ● Generic views ● Powerful forms ● Admin system which builds itself
  • 30. Powerful templates ● Keeps your HTML tidy, with logic separate and re-usable ● Auto-escaping ● Nestable (extend/include other templates) ● Built-in formatting: date, re-grouping, thousand commas, timesince, yesno ● Odd/even/last flags in loops ● Extensible
  • 31. Security ● Auto-escaping ● CSRF ● SQL injection ● Clickjacking
  • 32. Other cool things ● Multiple databases - abstracted by powerful ORM ● Flexible URL mapping ● MVT framework - keeps things tidy ● i18n ● It's WSGI compliant
  • 33. The best thing! ● You can throw it all away. ○ Pluggable, extensible everything. Use it, customise it, or roll your own. ○ ...so it’s easy to develop your prototype into the finished product.
  • 40. Any questions? ben@p.ota.to adam@p.ota.to jobs@p.ota.to http://p.ota.to @potatobristol