Google App Engine for PHP: CMS Africa Summit Presentation

Presented by Anthony Nandaa on Friday 7th March 2014, at CMS Summit Africa - http://summit.cmsafrica.org/

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1. Google App Engine for PHP Anthony Nandaa, GDG Nairobi
2. About Me  Computer Scientist / Developer  UX/Design  Lead at @gdgnairobi  Works at @c4dlab  Started @deveint, @beyondelabs, etc. (Budding IT businesses)  Partner at @slaterecreation, a technology fused fitness and recreation startup  Play bass-guitar at Calvary Chapel Nairobi and @ahadiband  Born to build – people, great things, anything.
3. I’m here to convince you, to go shut down your servers, and move to Google App Engine.
4. Outline  Why Google App Engine (GAE)?  Major components of GAE:  CloudSQL  Google Cloud Storage  Memcache  Task Queues  Demo – Wordpress on GAE
5. Why Google App Engine?  Scalability  Use the same resources used to power robust products by Google like:  Search, YouTube, Gmail, Android Playstore, etc.
6. PHP finally on GAE  PHP is now even more awesome  New kid on the block:  Java  Python  Go  PHP
7. Components of GAE  Cloud SQL  A fully managed MySQL 5.5 compatible database service  Highly durable, highly available  Automatic backup and one-click restoration  Reservation or usage pricing  Optimised for use with GAE (security & performance)
8. Components of GAE  Managing files with Google Cloud Storage  Fast, reliable and durable  Fine grained access control  Can be used to publish public web content  Access your files from GAE, RESTful APIs or web-based GUI
9. Components of GAE  Google Cloud Storage for PHP  App Engine provides stream support for reading and writing to cloud storage buckets $handle = fopen(“gs://my_bucket/foo.jpg”,”w”); $handle = fwrite($handle, $data_to_write); fclose($handle); $text = file_get_contents(“gs://my_bucket/shakespear.txt” );
10. Components of GAE  Memcache  App Engine provides a zero-configuration memcache service that works out of box $memcache = new Memcache; $memcache->set(„foo‟,‟bar‟); print $memcache->get(„foo‟); $memcached = new Memcached; $memcached->set(„foo‟,‟bar‟); print $memcached->get(„foo‟);
11. Components of GAE  Task Queues  Asynchronous execution  Example:
12. Demo: Wordpress on GAE  http://gaeforphp-blog.appspot.com
13. Addendum  Official: https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/php/  Wordpress on GAE tutorial - https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/php/getting started/installinglinux  3 minutes overview of GAE - http://youtu.be/CJbmJ1W5wys
14. Thank you :) twitter: @profnandaa blog: nandaa.com email: prof@nandaa.com Get the deck here: bit.ly/gaecmssummit