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Learn to build scalable apps in Python with Google App Engine

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Solving the problem of scalability Imagine that you’ve written an app and it’s successful beyond your dreams. How are you going to handle that wonderful torrent of traffic? Fear not! We’ve published a new online training course at Udacity that will teach you all you need to know to build robust scalable applications in Python.
Developing Scalable Apps for Python is the follow-up course to the Java version that we released last summer. Ever since then, people have been clamoring for a Python version of the course. You asked, and we listened.
Created by Magnus Hyttsten, Jocelyn Becker, and Karl Krueger, the course discusses the core concepts of building scalable apps using Google App Engine. You’ll put this knowledge into practice by coding, step by step, an application for easily creating and registering for conferences. Your app will be accessible to both mobile and web clients.

What will you be able to do at the end of this course? By the end of this course, you will:

Understand how technologies such as Task Queues, Memcache, Edge Caching, and Datastore can be combined to develop an app that scales.

Have built a scalable application with usable real-world functionality from scratch

Sound interesting? Then sign up for the Python or Java version of the Udacity course. Also, join the conversation at @GoogleCloud on Twitter.
-Posted by John Souchak, Technical Training and Certification Manager