Chapter 4: Choosing the Right Compute Option
In the first three chapters, we've tried to give you most of the information required to make better decisions when building cloud-native applications. Now, it's time to make your first decision: which cloud compute solution to use.
The Google Cloud offers a number of compute options—namely, Firebase, Google Compute Engine (GCE), Google App Engine (GAE), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cloud Run, and an upcoming service called Workflows. In case you're thinking that so many choices will make your decision more difficult, don't worry—it won't. Each of these services is built for specific purposes but isn't too different from the others—all of them achieve similar goals with different approaches. One of the main differences between these services is the level of abstraction each service has.
In this chapter, we will go over each of these services, their advantages and disadvantages...
