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We have written the insert into the metadata table along with the object upload in our Python code. However, this would rarely be an ideal scenario. The upload and the insert into the metadata table have to be decoupled. The elegant way to handle this is by using Cloud Functions. On the upload of the object, a Cloud Function can read the input file and update the metadata table. So, the update to the metadata table need not be close to the file upload and can be an independent function.