Cloud Basics: Google App Engine

This was a webinar session on Google Cloud and Cloud computing, hosted by the GDSC community of students at Forman Christian College in Lahore.

My talk covered basics of Cloud development, Google Cloud Platform, and how to quickly get started with Google App Engine.

Transcript

1. GDSC FCCU 2023 • Lahore, Pakistan Google App Engine Cloud Basics Series
2. Technology advisor & consultant for startups, and Manager at Google Developers Group Find me anywhere @sheharyarn Sheharyar Naseer
3. Background • Indie Nomad Software Architect • 13+ years of polyglot experience, focus on Web & Cloud • StackOverflow: 70,000+ score (Top 5 in Pakistan) • Author / Contributor of multiple famous libraries & tools • Featured on popular developer communities
4. Outline Cloud Basics Intro to Google Cloud Platform Google App Engine Live Demo Learning Resources Q&A
5. Cloud Computing The Basics
6. Cloud Computing • On-demand access to computing resources, including servers, storage and networking infrastructure, hosted at a remote data-center • "Someone else's computer" • E.g. Domains and Hosting
7. Technology Verticals • Web & Mobile • ML / AI • Distributed Systems • Internet of Things • Mixed Reality
8. Technology Verticals • Web & Mobile • ML / AI • Distributed Systems • Internet of Things • Mixed Reality CLOUD
9. Careers in Cloud • Web Developer (Backend & Frontend) • Site Reliability Engineer • Software/Cloud Architect • Networking Specialist • Cloud Security Specialist • MLOps Engineer • Big Data Engineer
10. Google Cloud Platform A Light Introduction
11. Google Cloud Platform • IaaS: Infrastructure as a Service • One of the "Big 3" • Servers, Storage, Databases, Networking, etc. • Extremely powerful • $300 in credits when you sign up
12. GCP Services • Cloud Storage • Cloud SQL, Firestore, and BigQuery • Compute Engine & App Engine • Cloud AI, Vision & Language
13. Google App Engine Getting Started
14. Google App Engine • Fully managed and secure serverless platform to host websites and applications • Easy to use and deploy • Supports many popular languages • Use for free (on smallest tier)
15. Usage • Create project on Google Cloud • Install GCloud & select your project • Create app.yaml in your code • Run deploy command
16. Example • Commands: gcloud config set project [PROJECT-ID] gcloud app deploy • Config: runtime: python3 entrypoint: python main.py
17. Live Demo Google App Engine in Action
18. Questions? These Slides More Talks Official Docs Videos Code Labs 🌎 @  shyr.io hi@shyr.io @sheharyarn shyr.io/t/app-engine-basics shyr.io/talks cloud.google.com/appengine youtube.com/@GoogleDevelopers codelabs.developers.google.com → → → → →