[Fiware-lab-help] Technical questions about application development with GEs

[Florian Klemt]

Hi there,

I would like to enter the Campus Labs Fi-Ware Challenge and have some
technical questions about GEs.
The application that I would like to develop is a web based application
(desktop and mobile) that is also capable of analysing user activities
and recommend actions according to the previous user activities.

The first question is about running the necessary server infrastructure
on GEs. As far as I understand, I can start machine instances that run
in the Fi-Ware cloud. How do I provision these virtual machines to host
the server software (web server, databases, etc.) as well as my
application source code? Is it recommended to use tools like chef or puppet?

The second question is about analysing and processing user data and user
actions. I read in your wiki that I can run GEs with that capability but
didn't understand how I can include that into my application. Some
further documentation or example code would be very helpful.

Thank you very much and best regards
- Florian Klemt