Mastering Google App Engine

Summary

This chapter described how the App Engine works in terms of scaling and the anatomy of a typical App Engine application. We then turned our attention towards the services that are at the disposal of an App Engine application. We had a brief overview of each one of these services. Next, we moved towards writing a simple web app that would print all the environment variables. Next, we ran it locally and deployed it on the cloud to examine its output and noted a few interesting headers that are added by App Engine.

This understanding of the environment is essential towards mastering Google App Engine. By now, you have a pretty good understanding of the environment under which your code executes. In the next chapter, we are going to examine ...