One of the most exciting recent changes in the computing world is cloud
computing. Cloud computing is a dramatic shift in how applications are developed
and used---and even in what applications are. With cloud computing, developers
are no longer building applications that run on a user's desktop computer.
Instead, they're building services on the network that can be used by thousands
of users at the same time.

Cloud services are an exciting opportunity for developers: the cloud is
a platform for creating services, a new kind of application that can reach more
users, and provide those users with more capabilities than a desktop application
ever could. Building applications as cloud services also makes them scalable:
cloud applications can easily and smoothly adapt from running on a single
computer for a single user to running on thousands of computers for millions
of users.

Code in the Cloud will teach you what a cloud service is, and how it differs
from traditional applications. It will show you how to build a cloud service,
taking advantage of the services that AppEngine makes available to you, using
iterative development of a simple application to guide you through the different
aspects of AppEngine development, using either Python or Java.

Through the process of working on a simple application, you'll learn about how
to build an application as a service; how to manage persistent data using
AppEngine; how to build dynamic, interactive user interfaces that run in a user's
web-browser; how to manage security in a web application; and how to interact
with other services running in the AppEngine cloud.

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