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Building Google Cloud Platform Solutions
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Building Google Cloud Platform Solutions

by Ted Hunter, Steven Porter, Legorie Rajan PS
March 2019
Beginner to intermediate
778 pages
34h 20m
English
Packt Publishing
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Background function retries and termination

Background functions support optional retries as a way to increase the likelihood of events being successfully processed when functions involve operations that may fail intermittently. Retries can be enabled when deploying via command line by providing the --retry flag, or in the Cloud Console when configuring triggers under Advanced options Retry on failure.

Note that retries will be performed for up to seven days when retires are enabled. For this reason, Google recommends that a retry termination condition be included in the function definition, such as comparing the event's creation timestamp to the current time of execution.

As a convenience, background functions can be terminated in a number ...

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