Introduction to Cloud Functions

An Introduction talk about Google Cloud Functions done at GDGJohannesburg

Transcript

1. Introduction to Cloud Functions Peter-John Welcome @pjapplez
2. What is Cloud Functions? • Serverless Environment (Backend Code) • Microservice • Code as infrastructure
3. Why Cloud Functions? • Auto Scaling up and down based on load • Pay as you go • Authenticated access to Firebase and Google Services (ML/ NLP) • Fully managed system
4. How does it work? Built on express, which is a node web serving framework. • Http endpoints • Handles firebase event.
5. Cloud Functions Integration • Http Endpoints • Firebase host for dynamic serving of content • Crashlytics • Cloud pub/sub • Firebase Auth,Cloud Messaging, Analytics ,Cloud Storage, RT Database , Firestore
6. Languages
7. Time Demo
8. Unit Testing https://firebase.google.com/docs/functions/unit-testing
9. Running Locally $ firebase serve --only functions, hosting (Https endpoint functions) $ firebase experimental: functions : shell --port 11111 ( function triggers- Firebase)
10. Running on CI/CD https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/deployment_integrations/#firebase
11. Thanks! Contact me: google.com/u/0/+PeterJohnWelcome Twitter : @pjapplez pjwelcome@gmail.com Peter-johnwelcome.co.za https://github.com/pjwelcome