June 2018
Intermediate to advanced
372 pages
8h 44m
English
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Serverless compute with cloud functions
Google Cloud Functions allow developers to create standalone functions. It is a hassle-free lightweight solution for someone looking for implementing single-purpose functions in response to their public cloud (in this case, GCP) events.
Cloud Functions are to be written in JS (JavaScript) and are executed in Node.js environment on GCP. On the other hand we can use these cloud functions on any standard Node.js runtime as well which makes them a lot portable.