Chapter 12. Cloud Functions: serverless applications
This chapter covers
- What are microservices?
- What is Google Cloud Functions?
- Creating, deploying, updating, triggering, and deleting functions
- Managing function dependencies
- How pricing works for Google Cloud Functions
12.1. What are microservices?
A “microservice architecture” is a way of building and assembling an application that keeps each concrete piece of the application as its own loosely coupled part (called a microservice). Each microservice can stand on its own, whereas a traditional application has many parts that are intertwined with one another, incapable of running independently.
For example, when creating a typical application, you’d start a project and then start adding ...
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