A small tutorial project for learning Flask, APIs, and Google App Engine for beginners If you want to build web apps in a very short amount of time using Python, then Flask is a fantastic option. Flask is a small and powerful web framework (also known as “microframework”). It is also very easy to learn and simple...
Every year, Google releases the source code for the I/O Android companion app several weeks after the developer conference. The 2018 version is notable for a “comprehensive rewrite” featuring Architecture Components, Kotlin, Material Theming, and other modern elements. The annual release is designed to demonstrate best practices for creating an app used by thousands of attendees to get important...
For reliable applications, the web giant relies on ‘site reliability engineering’: DevOps with an engineering foundation. Everyone wants to do DevOps these days, but what does a well-humming DevOps environment really look like? What is the vision to strive for? To date, DevOps has been popping up as a hodgepodge of activities and initiatives across...
Many customers of Kubernetes Engine, especially enterprises, need to autoscale their environments based on more than just CPU usage—for example queue length or concurrent persistent connections. In Kubernetes Engine 1.9 we started adding features to address this and today, with the latest beta release of Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) on Kubernetes Engine 1.10, you can configure...
