Question: What is Google App Engine?
Google App Engine is a platform as a service (PaaS).
It provides cloud computing platform for developing and hosting web applications in Google-managed data centers.
It is also know as GAE.
Question: When comes stable version of Google App Engine?
1.9.26 / 4 September 2015
Question: Which Programming languages support by GAE ?
Python, Java, Go, PHP and coming others
Question: What is Offical website for GAE?
http://cloud.google.com/appengine
Question: Why GAE is used?
It is used to develop the Web Application, APIs for Mobile, Web Application.
Question: What are different built-in services available?
- NoSQL datastores
- memcache
- user authentication API
Question: What are benefits of using GAI
- Load Balancing
- Health Checks
- Application logging
- Automatic Scaling
- Automated Security Scanning
Question: What are different IDE available with GAE
Eclipse, IntelliJ, Maven, Git, Jenkins, and PyCharm.
Question: Is it free?
Yes, It is free upto few Level.
Check here for details https://cloud.google.com/appengine/
Question: What is Difference between Google Apps and Google App engine(GAE) ?
Google Apps: It is Web-based hosted software-as-a-service (SaaS).
For Example: gmail.com, Gtalk, Google calender
Google App engine: It is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS).
Here you can host your Website and Website APps.
For Example: It is similar to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
Question: What are the steps to start with Google App Engine?
- Download the App Engine SDK for PHP
- Creating a Simple Request Handler
- Create the Configuration File
- Testing the Application
- Iterative Development
- Uploading the application
- Done
Question: How to start the PHP development in Google Engine App?
- Registering an app on GAE. https://appengine.google.com/
- Download the Google App Engine from https://cloud.google.com/appengine/downloads#Google_App_Engine_SDK_for_PHP
- Starting a project with IDE
- create main.php and app.yaml files
- Test your application
- Upload to Server
http://www.sitepoint.com/google-app-engine-php-getting-started/
for PHP, You have to install Python 2.7 Version From https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-2711/
Question: Where can i check my PHP Code?
http://localhost:8080/