Django on app engine
- 1. Django on App Engine http://p.ota.to @potatobristol
- 2. Speaking today [email protected] ● Heads up Potato Bristol ● Come and say hello! [email protected] ● Leads a Google project team in London ● Expert on our technologies
- 3. Who are Potato? ● Part of Google’s Creative Lab ● Work for Google, BBH, Mother, PayPal... ● Developer focussed ● ‘Whatever works’, no heavy process ● Based in London, Bristol, San Francisco, Amsterdam ● 60 people growing fast, 9 in Bristol
- 5. A connection to the interwebs!
- 6. Our apps serve More than 35,000,000 requests per day.
- 7. Our apps serve More than 35,000,000 requests per day. (On a boring day.)
- 8. Our apps serve More than 200,000,000 requests per day on an exciting day. That's about 2300 requests per second.
- 9. What sort of apps? ● Small, rapidly developed, short-lived apps ● Large-scale, long-lived products ● Internal secret tools ● World famous, high traffic sites
- 11. Map Your Valentine ● Built in 4 days ● Live for 1 week ● Featured on Google.com home page
- 13. Google Engage ● Intelligent distribution system for Google AdWords coupons ● Live for 1.5 years, and counting... ● 70 countries ● 40 languages ● We're not allowed to say any more!
- 14. Bristol?
- 15. Potato Bristol ● Own our own projects ● Help with London projects (and vice versa) ● The ‘Bristol Effect’ ● Such as...
- 17. Google for Veterans ● Very complex apps ● Very high profile launch ● Mentioned on the White House blog ● Recommended by the First Lady
- 19. Secret Policeman's Ball ● Huge profile ● Complex social platform integration ● Withstood tweets from Steven Fry and Chris Martin
- 21. Versus Debates ● Live YouTube channel ● Google+ Hangouts ● Scalable live ‘mood meter’
- 22. How?
- 23. App Engine
- 24. What is it? ● Cloud based app server ● Google's infrastructure ● Powerful APIs and tools
- 25. Cloud based ● App centric (not machine centric) ● No server maintenance ● Automatically scales (up and down) ● Only pay for what you use ● High replication ● Control panel
- 26. Google infrastructure ● Reliability, security, performance ● Global CDN ● URL fetch ● Mail ● Country in request ● Google Accounts (and OpenID) ● Images API ● Cloud storage ● Docs (app as user) ● Loads more APIs and tools...
- 27. Your app ● Datastore (noSQL, schemaless) ● Cloud SQL ● Blobstore ● Memcache ● Backends ● Task queue scheduled and deferred tasks ● Choice of Java or Python, so...
- 29. Rapid development ● Written in Python ● Sets up database from your code ● Generic views ● Powerful forms ● Admin system which builds itself
- 30. Powerful templates ● Keeps your HTML tidy, with logic separate and re-usable ● Auto-escaping ● Nestable (extend/include other templates) ● Built-in formatting: date, re-grouping, thousand commas, timesince, yesno ● Odd/even/last flags in loops ● Extensible
- 31. Security ● Auto-escaping ● CSRF ● SQL injection ● Clickjacking
- 32. Other cool things ● Multiple databases - abstracted by powerful ORM ● Flexible URL mapping ● MVT framework - keeps things tidy ● i18n ● It's WSGI compliant
- 33. The best thing! ● You can throw it all away. ○ Pluggable, extensible everything. Use it, customise it, or roll your own. ○ ...so it’s easy to develop your prototype into the finished product.
- 34. Finally...
- 39. p.ota.to/jobs
- 40. Any questions? [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] http://p.ota.to @potatobristol