[TriZPUG] Fwd: [TriLUG] Google App Engine Hack-a-Thon?

[Chris Rossi]

Brad, that sounds pretty cool.  Please keep TriZPUG (or at least me) in the
loop.

Thanks!
Chris


On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Brad Oaks <bradoaks at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Just wanted to let the local Python group know about this discussion
> that is happening over on the TriLUG list.
>
> --bradoaks
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Daniel Sterling <eqhmcow at gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:05 PM
> Subject: [TriLUG] Google App Engine Hack-a-Thon?
> To: trilug at trilug.org
>
>
> Would Trilugers be interested in a Google App Engine Hack-a-Thon? If
> there's enough interest, Google is offering to host an event at their
> Chapel-Hill office, sometime this or next month.
>
> Google's App Engine (documented at
> http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/ ) allows you to write a web
> application that runs on Google's systems. You write your application
> (currently using Python), upload it to Google, and it's live. You can
> sign up and deploy applications with no charge (currently, you're not
> allowed to exceed bandwidth/CPU usage quotas).
>
> The really nifty part is that GAE allows you to work with Google's
> BigTable database system. Referred to by the GAE documentation as the
> DataStore, this is no ordinary DBMS; you don't create a pre-defined
> relational schema with SQL to use it. Instead, you define models right
> in your code, populate them with data, and send them to the DataStore.
> For retrieval, you can use either an entity's unique key, or retrieve
> all records, filtered and ordered via pre-defined indexes. The
> DataStore supports transactions with automatic retry, and
> automatically handles redundancy and partitioning. In other words, you
> can write a really scalable app without sweating all the hard details
> (you just have to make sure your model makes sense :)
>
> App Engine also has several other userful APIs, including integration
> with Google's user service and support for Django templates. It's also
> possible to use other Python web frameworks (minus their usual RDBMS
> hooks).
>
> So, email back if you're interested in getting together to discuss and
> hack on code for GAE projects. (I do not work for Google, I just bug
> people who do:)
>
> Thanks,
> Dan Sterling
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