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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

Exploring the Cloud Functions workflow

So, it seems like Cloud Functions are pretty useful, and together with the Functions Framework, it would appear to be a match made in heaven. Besides, the overall approach seems very extensible, and working with other products and services within Google Cloud seems greatly simplified. So, if you are already in team Google Cloud, using Cloud Functions is a no-brainer.

For those of you who are not in team Google Cloud or may be sitting on the fence, there is more to this story. Serverless is a general term that has taken some critical feedback over the years. For most folks, serverless relates to the lack of requirement-driven infrastructure management when deploying code. For others, it means, services being available immediately and being capable of achieving sizing appropriate to the needs of the application used, with the ability to self...

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