Instead of using virtual machines for backend computing, you can simply use functions. Let's have a look at some example backends:
- IoT backends: In the IoT world, there's a large number of devices that send data to the backend. Cloud Functions allow you to process this data and auto-scale it when needed. This happens without any human intervention.
- Mobile backends: Cloud Functions can process data that's delivered by your mobile applications. They can interact with all GCP services to make use of big data, machine learning capabilities, and so on. There is no need to use any virtual machines and you can go completely serverless.
- Third-party API integrations: You can use functions to integrate with any third-party system ...