App Engine

Question 1

App Engine

Answer 1

–> Simplest way to deploy and scale your applications in GCP
–> Provides end-to-end application management

Question 2

App Engine environments

Answer 2

1. Standard: Applications run in language specific sandboxes
2. Flexible - Application instances run within Docker containers

Question 3

App Engine - Scaling Instances

Answer 3

1. Automatic - Automatically scale instances based on the load:
   –> Recommended for Continuously Running Workloads
2. Basic - Instances are created as and when requests are received:
   –> Recommended for Adhoc Workloads
3. Manual - Configure specific number of instances to run:
   –> Adjust number of instances manually over time

Question 4

How do you split traffffic between multiple versions?

Answer 4

1. IP Splitting - Based on request IP address
2. Cookie Splitting - Based on a cookie (GOOGAPPUID)
3. Random - Do it randomly

Question 5

App Engine - Cron Job

Answer 5

Allows to run scheduled jobs at pre-defined intervals

Question 6

AppEngine is

Answer 6

Regional (services deployed across zones)
–> You CANNOT change an Application’s region