Hands-On Serverless Computing

An Introduction to Google Cloud Functions

Google Cloud Functions is a service that Google Cloud offers to running functions. Google Cloud Functions is Google's implementation of FaaS. Its main goal is to enable developers to run small pieces of software code or functions to be run in Google Cloud Platform. If you recall the benefits of FaaS that we learned in Chapter 1, What is Serverless Computing? one of them is that the developer is just focused on writing the code to solve the problem at hand, rather than worrying about the infrastructure on which it will run; they don't have to worry about the entire application that is required to run the code, nor do they have to worry about scaling the infrastructure when the function receives a lot ...