Python for Google App Engine

Chapter 1. Getting Started

Any software available over the Internet, usually accessed with a web browser, can be addressed as a web application. Social networks, e-commerce sites, e-mail clients, online games are just a few examples of a trend known as web 2.0, which was started in the late 1990s and emerged in the past few years. Today, if we want to provide a service for multiple clients and multiple users, we will likely end in with writing a web application.

Web applications come with an endless list of benefits from a developer's point of view but there is one major drawback to face every time we want to make our software available to other users: we need a remote server connected to the Internet to host the application. This server must be ...