Serverless: Everything You Need to Know About Google Cloud Functions

Functions as a Service (FaaS) is one of the delivery models based on the serverless paradigm. It enables developers to write and execute code snippets with a well-defined entry point in response to an event. This invocation mechanism makes FaaS ideal for event-driven computing where the code is executed in response to an external event. To interactively trigger a function, an HTTP endpoint may act as a trigger. Developers can focus on writing fine-grained, autonomous, and stateless functions that may be assembled into an application. Each function may represent a microservice participating in the call sequence.

Google Cloud Functions is a serverless compute platform from Google which became generally available in August 2018. Along with virtual machines and containers, functions offer a mechanism to execute code in the cloud. This article provides a snapshot of the current state of Google Cloud Functions.

Concepts and Terminology

Cloud Functions provides a connectivity layer of logic that lets developers write code to connect and extend cloud services.

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