Started from the course on http://www.lynda.com/ under cloud tutorials. It gives options for using Java, Python, or Go on https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs for the SDK.
Google App Engine touts itself as being the solution to scaling problems.
This starts from https://cloud.google.com, I choose Python for simplicity, this required installing pip with:
sudo python get-pip.py
Authenticating a computer can be done with:
% gcloud auth login
Testing the example app is done with:
% dev_appserver.py ./appengine-try-python-flask-master
Deploying the example app is done with:
% pwd /Users/jborden23/GoogleCloud/appengine-try-python-flask-master % appcfg.py -A vast-ascent-106314 update app.yaml
Some of Google's data tools can be used with this - see this talk.