Summary

In this chapter we have learned what Google Cloud Platform is, the tools and services it provides, and how we can use them to develop and run fast and scalable web applications written in Python.

We explored what tools we need to start developing with Python for the App Engine platform, how to run an application locally with the development server, and how fast and easy it is to upload it in a production server, ready to be served through the Internet.

The simple example we used in the chapter, although a fully functional App Engine application, is quite simple and it doesn't make use of anything provided by the platform besides the runtime environment. In the next chapter, we will start from scratch with a new, more useful application, exploring the webapp2 framework and taking advantage of Cloud Datastore.