Google AppEngine is a developer’s dream: one-button deployment, no servers to configure, and ultimate scalabilty. To get these benefits, however, you must learn to design within AppEngine’s constraints: no threads, no relational database, and a JRE whitelist, to name a few.
This presentation offers a peek inside a real-world GWT application deployed on AppEngine. We’ll look at working with the AppEngine database (including version upgrade considerations), how to do
background processing absent thread support, designing for quotas, and discuss one developer’s overall experience launching a startup on AppEngine.
David Chandler works with the Google Developer Tools Team in Atlanta. An electrical engineer by training, Chandler got hooked on developing database Web applications in the days of NCSA Mosaic and has since written Web applications in a variety of languages, including C, perl, ksh, ColdFusion, Java, JSF, GWT, and now Dart. Prior to joining Google, Chandler worked on Internet banking applications with Intuit and launched a non-profit startup built with GWT and AppEngine. Chandler holds a patent on a method of organizing hierarchical data in a relational database and blogs about Java Web development at http://turbomanage.wordpress.com.
