Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade

Google App Engine and Java

Application: Clustering Internet

search results for a person

20.1.2020. Aleksandar Kartelj

kartelj@matf.bg.ac.rs
 Google App Engine
• Web application hosting service
• Designed for real-time dynamic apps
• Many simultaneous users
• Scalable
• Paying resources monthly
• Free account (5 million page views a
month)

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 Sandboxing
• App can only read its own files
• App cannot manipulate environment
variables
• App cannot access network facilities
• Distributing request non-deterministically
• Consequence: run multiple apps on the
same server, or one app on multiple
servers safely
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 Architecture overview

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 Features
• The static file servers
• The Datastore
– Not join-query database
– Most resembling to object database
• Entities and properties
– Entity has 1..* properties
– Not to be confused with rows in RDBMS

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 Features
• Queries and indexes
– Index in made for every simple query
– Query performance affected only by the size
of the result set
• Transactions
– Optimistic concurrency control
– Entity groups (entities updated in one trans.)
• Services: memcache, URL fetch , Mail, …
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 App Engine’s request
handling

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 Building applications

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 App engine dashboard

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 App engine dashboard

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 Clustering search results

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 Clustering search results

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 EC2 vs GAE vs Azure

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 EC2 vs GAE vs Azure

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 Thank you.

Aleksandar Kartelj
Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade
kartelj@matf.bg.ac.rs
www.matf.bg.ac.rs/~kartelj