Functions are serverless

As we know by now, Cloud Functions eliminate the work of managing and maintaining servers, configuring software, updating frameworks, and patching operating systems. Google manages the software and infrastructure parts, making code your only concern. Moreover, provisioning of resources happens automatically in response to events (and we know what events are). This means that a function can scale from a few invocations a day to many millions of invocations without any work from you.

Simple and single-purpose functions can be written using Cloud Functions that are attached to events emitted from cloud services. The execution of Cloud Functions starts when an event is being fired. The code is executed in a fully managed ...

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