Programming Google App Engine is a book from O'Reilly Media on Google App Engine, the scalable web application hosting service. The 1st edition was published in November 2009. A 2nd edition is currently in progress, scheduled for publication in February 2012.

From the back cover of the 1st edition:

As one of today's cloud computing services, Google App Engine does more than provide access to a large system of servers. It also offers you a simple model for building applications that scale automatically to accommodate millions of users. With Programming Google App Engine, you'll get expert practical guidance that will help you make the best use of this powerful platform. Google engineer Dan Sanderson shows you how to design your applications for scalability, including ways to perform common development tasks using App Engine's APIs and scalable services.

You'll learn about App Engine's application server architecture, runtime environments, and scalable datastore for distributing data, as well as techniques for optimizing your application. App Engine offers nearly unlimited computing power, and this book provides clear and concise instructions for getting the most from it right from the source.

About Google App Engine

Google App Engine is a web application hosting service. With App Engine, your applications run on Google's massively scalable infrastructure. App Engine takes care of scaling for you, automatically growing your application with the size of your audience. Behind the scenes, App Engine distributes your app across as many servers as it needs to serve your users, and scales back during low-traffic periods. You only pay for what you use—down to the megabyte—and it costs nothing to get started.

About the Author

My name is Dan Sanderson. By day, I'm a software engineer and technical writer for Google. I've been in the web industry in various capacities for over 10 years. I have a long standing but not very interesting blog. You can follow me on Google+ and on Twitter.

Feel free to contact me about the book any time.