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Python for Google App Engine

By : Massimiliano Pippi
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Python for Google App Engine

By: Massimiliano Pippi

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Python for Google App Engine
Massimiliano Pippi
Jan, 2015 | 198 pages
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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Python for Google App Engine
Python for Google App Engine
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Getting Started
Getting Started
The cloud computing stack – SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS
Google Cloud Platform
What Google App Engine does
Making our first Python application
Google Developer Console
Summary
2
A More Complex Application
A More Complex Application
Experimenting on the Notes application
Authenticating users
HTML templates with Jinja2
Handling forms
Persisting data in Datastore
Using static files
Summary
3
Storing and Processing Users' Data
Storing and Processing Users' Data
Uploading files to Google Cloud Storage
Transforming images with the Images service
Processing long jobs with the task queue
Scheduling tasks with Cron
Sending notification e-mails
Receiving users' data as e-mail messages
Summary
4
Improving Application Performance
Improving Application Performance
Advanced use of Datastore
Using Memcache
Breaking our application into modules
Summary
5
Storing Data in Google Cloud SQL
Storing Data in Google Cloud SQL
Creating a Cloud SQL instance
Connecting to the instance with the MySQL console
Connecting to the instance from our application
Loading and saving data
Using the local MySQL installation for development
Summary
6
Using Channels to Implement a Real-time Application
Using Channels to Implement a Real-time Application
Understanding how the Channel API works
Making our application real time
Implementing the server
Tracking connections and disconnections
Summary
7
Building an Application with Django
Building an Application with Django
Setting up the local environment
Rewriting our application using Django 1.7
Summary
8
Exposing a REST API with Google Cloud Endpoints
Exposing a REST API with Google Cloud Endpoints
Reasons to use a REST API
Designing and building the API
Implementing API endpoints
Testing the API with API Explorer
Protecting an endpoint with OAuth2
Summary
Index
Index

Credits

Author

Massimiliano Pippi

Reviewers

Dom Derrien

Samuel Goebert

Marcos Placona

Commissioning Editor

Taron Pereira

Acquisition Editor

Richard Brookes-Bland

Content Development Editor

Vaibhav Pawar

Technical Editor

Tanmayee Patil

Copy Editors

Deepa Nambiar

Vikrant Phadke

Stuti Srivastava

Project Coordinator

Kranti Berde

Proofreaders

Simran Bhogal

Maria Gould

Ameesha Green

Paul Hindle

Indexer

Priya Sane

Production Coordinator

Nitesh Thakur

Cover Work

Nitesh Thakur

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