Much of the public details of our underlying technology can be found as google research publications. Notably, things in the Distributed Systems and Parallel Computing <http://research.google.com/pubs/DistributedSystemsandParallelComputing.html> section. Of particular note are the borg, bigtable, megastore, spanner, and paxos papers.
You can also check out AppScale <http://www.appscale.com/>, which is an open-source reimplementation of GAE. On Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 11:38:14 PM UTC-7, Aviad Moreshet wrote: > > Thanks Nick, sent them a message. > I've been scanning the docs for a while but most of it is about how to > properly use App Engine. > Very few materials about the underlyings. > > > בתאריך יום שישי, 15 באפריל 2016 בשעה 00:36:34 UTC+3, מאת Nick (Cloud > Platform Support): >> >> Hey Aviad, >> >> It sounds like an interesting project! However, I'm not sure how much >> information (if any) you'll get for a request for proprietary information >> in a competitive field as this is by posting on a community forum such as >> this one. I'd suggest getting in touch with sales >> <https://cloud.google.com/contact/> as a general contact. If you have an >> academic qualification to do such research or are in any way able to pull >> strings, it might be through such a contact. >> >> I regret that other than this, the only possible information I can give >> is to advise that you check out the documentation >> <https://cloud.google.com/docs/>, which is a treasure trove of >> information, which often hints at or explains infrastructure, internals, >> etc. >> >> Sincerely, >> >> Nick >> Cloud Platform Community Support >> >> On Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 4:57:18 PM UTC-4, Aviad Moreshet wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm making a research on distributed systems and would like to gather >>> some information about App Engine's underlying implementations, especially >>> in the following topics: >>> >>> Architecture, Underlying processes, Communication, Synchronization, >>> Consistency and Replication, Fault Tolerance and Security of course. >>> >>> I've been googling for hours but all the info I found is about the >>> features the system offers instead of what I'm looking for. >>> >>> Any intel would be appreciated, so don't hesitate. >>> >>> Thanks for helpers! >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/6975924d-f41f-454b-9ed0-a99913a1e5e6%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
