Google app engine - Overview
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This document discusses Google App Engine, including its architecture as a platform-as-a-service that allows building and hosting web apps on Google's infrastructure, providing automatic scaling, load balancing, and a datastore. It outlines advantages like ease of use, scalability and lower costs, as well as challenges around dependence on Google and potential lock-in. The document concludes by noting Google App Engine's growth but also increased competition in the platform-as-a-service market.
Google app engine - Overview
- 1. Google App Engine Overview, Current & Future Trend Assignment Type C Nathan Quach 17325178@student.uws.edu.au
- 2. Agenda Introduction Architecture Advantages Challenges/Risks Future Trend
- 3. Introduction Google App Engine: Platform-as-a-Service: To build Web apps on cloud Dynamic web server Automatic scaling & load balancing Transactional Datastore model Integration with Google Accounts through APIs Preview version in 2008 Latest version 1.6.6 (5/2012)
- 6. Main components App Engine Runtime environment – sandbox Datastore BigTable Datastore SQL Cloud Storage Cloud Suite of APIs to do common stuffs URL Fetch, Mail, Memcache, Image Manipulation…
- 7. Advantages Easy to get started Rapid and flexible development SDK for local development Rich APIs set Admin console and diagnostic utilities Easy deployment Scalability Lower cost of ownership Customizability Community Support
- 8. Challenges Entrenched Custom Software Custom software vs Platform technology Dependence on Google GAE downs, your apps down How to prevent lock-in Lock-in: apps aren’t able to portable to other services Is it really free? Be careful when you are locked in Security & Privacy
- 9. Future Trend Still growing Current: 200k active apps, 1.5bil page views/day More features planted ToS, pricing changes PaaS trend: PaaS ecosystems is flourishing Competitors: AWS Elastic Beanstalk, CloudBees, CloudFoundry, Cloudify, CumuLog ic, dotcloud, EngineYard, Heroku, Jelastic, Microsoft Windows Azure, MorphLabs, Rackspace Cloud Sites, Red Hat Open Shift, Saleforce Force.com … Adoption rate: 3% enterprise. Expectation: 43% in 2015