Getting Started with Google Cloud Functions (GCF)

Discussing our plan

Google Cloud Functions service ticks the usual managed FaaS boxes. It’s a service that allows us to deploy and manage functions while ignoring the existence of servers.

Functions don’t run on thin air, but this time it’s Google making sure that they’re up and running. The solution scales automatically based on the load. It has monitoring, logging, debugging, security, and so on and so forth.

All the managed FaaS solutions we’ll explore are doing the same things, more or less, so we can skip that part and jump straight into practical hands-on examples.