In this chapter, we will take a deep dive into Cloud Functions on Google Cloud. We have covered a fair bit already; however, there is still so much more to know and learn. Our primary focus so far has been to understand HTTP endpoints and to build some simple applications in order to demonstrate their associated capabilities. In addition to exciting HTTP event functionality, there are also background functions, that is, those functions that do not require access to an external HTTP endpoint.
To increase our understanding of these types of functions, we will be building several tools throughout this chapter to illustrate various concepts and techniques. We will continue to utilize the Functions Framework to create our code, and start to integrate the external system in order to showcase the ease of building a tool that meets our requirements.
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