Throughout this chapter, you will have realized that building solutions on Google Cloud does not require a vast amount of knowledge to get to a minimum viable product (MVP). Investing time to be able to iterate over numerous revisions quickly is worthwhile and can lead to significant improvements in the overall design.
Through this chapter, you should now have an appreciation of the nature of the services available. You will find it much easier to think about combining different products, almost like building blocks. In this regard, it is imperative, at the outset, to have a clear view of how the end solution should look. Taking the opportunity to build lightweight functions, as opposed to a monolith, can generally simplify the overall design; however, be sure that this is what your solution requires. As you will now be aware, there are many situations in which serverless...