What can I do with the google app engine?

[MINDRIL CYR]

I'm a little new to programming.  Does this give you server space to create web apps that can serve a large number of clients?  Could I use it to make something like a flash/facebook game?  Do I need additional software to do the programming?

[MINDRIL CYR]

Does it compile and host your apps.

[Kristopher Giesing]

App Engine can be thought of as a managed servlet container (e.g. like Tomcat, but supporting several other languages than Java).  You can use this for just about any purpose you can imagine for a web app.

Many other services (e.g. AWS) manage the infrastructure for you, but leave it to you to deploy the server architecture on top of the base OS distribution.  App Engine is more specialized than that, which can be both more convenient and (on occasion) more limiting.

You don't need any special paid software to do the programming, though you do need a local development environment.

There's a lot more information from Google here: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/whatisgoogleappengine

- Kris

[MINDRIL CYR]

Could I use this with google sites to make a dynamic web site? 

[Vinny P]

On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 6:00 PM, MINDRIL CYR <mindr...@gmail.com> wrote:

Could I use this with google sites to make a dynamic web site?  

 

Yes. Look up Google Sites Web Gadgets - essentially they're dynamic components (optionally hosted by App Engine) that can be embedded into Sites pages: https://developers.google.com/google-apps/sites/gadgets/site_gadgets#Host

  

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-Vinny P

Technology & Media Consultant

Chicago, IL

App Engine Code Samples: http://www.learntogoogleit.com