Google Cloud Platform in Action

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 ...