Exploring the general architecture of App Engine brings to light how much of the underlying framework has been put in place to deliver integrated workflows for web application development.
Google has bundled many internal services to minimize the effort needed by developers to make their applications cloud-native. Added to that is the innate ability of the GAE service to automatically scale without any additional actions required on the part of the service creator.
Creating a web application on this platform can be as simple as deploying your code to the App Engine environment. However, behind the scenes, there are several activities taking place to ensure that the application is deployed successfully, the infrastructure is provisioned, and the whole thing is ultimately able to scale intelligently. So, what is happening in the underlying...