You're reading from Architecting Cloud-Native Serverless Solutions Design, build, and operate serverless solutions on cloud and open source platforms

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803230085

Length 350 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Serverless

Concepts

Design

Authors (2):

Aditya Krishnakumar

Safeer CM

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1 – Serverless Essentials

2. Chapter 1: Serverless Computing and Function as a Service FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Backend as a Service and Powerful Serverless Platforms

4. Part 2 – Platforms and Solutions in Action

5. Chapter 3: Serverless Solutions in AWS

6. Chapter 4: Serverless Solutions in Azure

7. Chapter 5: Serverless Solutions in GCP

8. Chapter 6: Serverless Cloudflare

9. Chapter 7: Kubernetes, Knative and OpenFaaS

10. Chapter 8: Self-Hosted FaaS with Apache OpenWhisk

11. Part 3 – Design, Build, and Operate Serverless

12. Chapter 9: Implementing DevOps Practices for Serverless

13. Chapter 10: Serverless Security, Observability, and Best Practices

14. Chapter 11: Architectural and Design Patterns for Serverless

15. Index

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More serverless services

The following services are useful when combined with the services we’ve covered in this chapter. I will try to cover them in order of importance, though that order might be different based on what you are trying to solve.

Cloud Run

This service can be considered the big cousin of Cloud Functions. Cloud Run offers more power and flexibility than Cloud Functions for more complex use cases. It is a fully managed serverless container platform. It allows you to bring in custom containers with your own runtimes and custom libraries. This way, you are not limited to the choice of OS and runtimes that Cloud Functions offers. You can also do your own optimizations on the runtimes and OS so that they run the way you want.

A detailed write-up on when to use Cloud Run versus Cloud Functions can be found at https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/serverless/cloud-run-vs-cloud-functions-for-serverless.