Building scalable PHP applications using Google’s App Engine

While at Sun Microsystems, Mandy worked on improving PHP support for Solaris and OpenSolaris. Attracted by the option to use slides instead of stairs to move between and by the many coloured bicycles, she joined Google as a Developer Advocate in 2010. She started out supporting AdWords API developers in designing and developing scalable and highly integrated AdWords API platforms, frequently written in PHP. Then, attracted by the idea of having everyone run their stuff in the Cloud, Mandy became the Google Cloud Platform Developer Relations lead in EMEA and now works tirelessly to help developers to be successful with Google App Engine, Google Compute Engine and the Google data products.

Building scalable PHP applications using Google’s App Engine

Ian Barber works as a Developer Advocate for Google+, and is based in Google’s London office, where he helps developers make best use of the Google+ platform. Ian is a regular conference speaker, and occasional blogger at http://riskcompletefailure.com and http://phpir.com, and wrote a short ebook on messaging: https://leanpub.com/messageisthemedium. Among various open source interests, Ian is the author of the PHP Support Vector Machine extension and a contributor to the brokerless messaging library ZeroMQ.