Google is involved with many efforts to make the social web more real, more useful, and more open. This session is an overview of Google’s new App Engine platform and explains how to use AppEngine to power OpenSocial applications.
13. Google App Engine
quot;We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a
programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris .”
Larry Wall, Programming Perl (1st edition), Oreilly And Associates
Works for Python programmers too:-)
Larry and Guido (Credits Tim Bray http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/)
14. Google App Engine for OpenSocial
Social App’s main issue: when viral growth kicks in, how do you
scale your app?
OpenSocial persistence API limited in volume and capability
Create an App Engine app as your backend
makeRequest() to call back your server, can be signed
Lane Liabraaten’s article about how to do that
http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/articles/appengine.html