Running Serverless Code on Google Cloud – Part 1

After three chapters without having written a single line of code, you will probably be looking forward to some hands-on action happening as soon as possible. As you will see, it was worth the wait, since I introduced a lot of concepts that we will be using in this and the following chapters.

This chapter will cover two of the serverless options available for running your code on Google Cloud, while the next will cover the third. You will learn what serverless means and then I’ll introduce each of the serverless options, together with an example that we will make run in each option so that we can compare the implementation, as well as tips for running your code on Google Cloud using either Cloud Functions or App Engine in this chapter, or Cloud Run in the next one.

Finally, we will discuss their similarities and differences and when you should choose each.

We’ll cover the following main topics in this chapter...