cloud-test: August 2013

Google Cloud Platform Blog

Khan Academy runs on Google Cloud Platform

Thursday, August 22, 2013

(Cross-posted with the Google Enterprise blog)
Editor’s Note: Today’s guest post is from Ben Kamens, Lead Developer at Khan Academy, a not-for-profit that provides a free education available for anyone.

Khan Academy

Shipping beats perfection.

Be open. Share your work.

Anybody can fix anything.

Google Cloud PlatformGoogle App EngineDatastorepersonal stories

Google

Labels: Customers , Developer Tools & Insights , Open Source

Google Cloud Storage now provides server-side encryption

Thursday, August 15, 2013

This post has been updated to more accurately reflect details of the encryption process.Google Cloud Storage128-bit Advanced Encryption StandardPersistent DisksScratch DisksGoogle Compute Engine

Google

Labels: Security & Identity , Storage & Databases

Google Cloud Platform enhances Compute Engine, App Engine and Cloud Datastore

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Google Cloud Platformfeatures we first shared at I/O

layer 3 load balancing capability for Google Compute Engine

new features and productivity improvements for Google Cloud Datastore

improvements to the PHP runtime as part of the Google App Engine 1.8.3 release

Load balancing now available on Google Compute Enginelayer 3 load balancing

Load-balance ingress network TCP/UDP traffic over a specific set of Compute Engine virtual machines (VMs) within the same region

Ensure that only healthy VMs are used to serve Internet requests through the use of HTTP-based health checks

Easily handle spikes in load without pre-warming

Configure the load balancer via command line interface (CLI) and a programmatic RESTful API

pricing pageImproved developer experience for Google Cloud DatastoreGoogle Query Language (GQL) SupportGQL supportMetadata queriesMetadata QueriesLocal SDK improvements numerous enhancementsincluded supportGetting started with RubyCloud Datastore support for Ruby developersUpdates to the PHP runtime in Google App Engine 1.8.3 PHP runtimerelease notesintegration with Google Cloud Storage

improved support for working with directories in Google Cloud Storage — allowing you to call functions such as opendir() or writedir() directly on Cloud Storage buckets

support for functions related to stat()-ing files, such as is_readable() and is_file()

the ability to write metadata to Cloud Storage files

substantial performance improvements through memcache-backed optimistic read caching — this improves the performance of applications that need to read frequently from the same Cloud Storage file

numerous bug fixes

task queuesPushTask:addTasks()Greg DeMichillie

Google

Getting Started with Twilio and Google App Engine for PHP

Monday, August 5, 2013

Today’s post comes from Keith Casey, Sr. Developer Evangelist at Twilio. In this post, Keith describes how to use Twilio with Google App Engine on the PHP runtime. You can follow Keith on Twitter at @caseysoftware or on Google+.Google App Engine

Set up the PHP on App Engine environmentGoogle’s Getting started with PHP on Google App EngineUpgrade your Twilio Helper libraryTwilio’s PHP Helper librarytext messagesphone calls<?php
// Include the Twilio PHP library
require "Services/Twilio.php";

// Set your AccountSid and AuthToken from www.twilio.com/user/account
$AccountSid = "ACXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX";
$AuthToken = "YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY";

// Instantiate a new Twilio Rest Client
$client = new Services_Twilio($AccountSid, $AuthToken);

// Make an array of people we know, to send them a message:
$people = array(
"+14158675309" => "Curious George",
"+14158675310" => "Boots",
"+14158675311" => "Virgil",
);

// Loop over all our friends:
foreach ($people as $number => $name) {

$sms = $client->account->sms_messages->create(
"YYY-YYY-YYYY", // Change the 'From' number to a Twilio number you've purchased
$number, // the number we are sending to - Any phone number
"Hey $name, Monkey Party at 6PM. Bring Bananas!" // the sms body
);

echo "Sent message to $name"; // Display a confirmation message
}
If you’re interested in the the specific changes for our library, you can explore the relevant pull requests here and here. I also have an article called “Preparing your PHP for App Engine” in next month’s php|architect magazine.URL Routing in PHP

application: examplehelloworld
version: 1
runtime: php
api_version: 1
threadsafe: true

handlers:
- url: .*
script: main.php
application: examplehelloworld
version: 1
runtime: php
api_version: 1
threadsafe: true

handlers:
- url: /images
static_dir: images

- url: /send-sms
script: send-sms.php

- url: /make-call
script: make-call.php

- url: .*
script: index.php
<?php

require 'Services/Twilio.php';
include 'credentials.php';

$client = new Services_Twilio($AccountSid, $AuthToken);

$call = $client->account->calls->create(
'1512-555-1212', // From this number
'17035551212', // Send to this number
'http://twimlets.com/echo?Twiml=%3CResponse%3E%3CSay%3EHello%20Monkey!%3C%2FSay%3E%3C%2FResponse%3E&'
);
print $call->sid;
<?php

require 'Services/Twilio.php';
include 'credentials.php';

$client = new Services_Twilio($AccountSid, $AuthToken);

$call = $client->account->sms_messages->create(
'1512-555-1212', // From this number
'17035551212', // Send to this number
'Hello monkey!!'
);
print $call->sid;
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