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Hands-On Serverless Computing with Google Cloud

You're reading from   Hands-On Serverless Computing with Google Cloud Build, deploy, and containerize apps using Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, and cloud-native technologies

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838827991
Length 320 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: App Engine
2. Introducing App Engine FREE CHAPTER 3. Developing with App Engine 4. Section 2: Google Cloud Functions
5. Introducing Lightweight Functions 6. Developing Cloud Functions 7. Exploring Functions as a Service 8. Cloud Functions Labs 9. Section 3: Google Cloud Run
10. Introducing Cloud Run 11. Developing with Cloud Run 12. Developing with Cloud Run for Anthos 13. Cloud Run Labs 14. Section 4: Building a Serverless Workload
15. Building a PDF Conversion Service 16. Consuming Third-Party Data via a REST API 17. Assessments 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding the App Engine framework

Exploring the general architecture of App Engine brings to light how much of the underlying framework has been put in place to deliver integrated workflows for web application development.

Google has bundled many internal services to minimize the effort needed by developers to make their applications cloud-native. Added to that is the innate ability of the GAE service to automatically scale without any additional actions required on the part of the service creator.

Creating a web application on this platform can be as simple as deploying your code to the App Engine environment. However, behind the scenes, there are several activities taking place to ensure that the application is deployed successfully, the infrastructure is provisioned, and the whole thing is ultimately able to scale intelligently. So, what is happening in the underlying...

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Hands-On Serverless Computing with Google Cloud
Published in: Feb 2020
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781838827991
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