Introduction to Cloud Functions

An Introduction talk about Google Cloud Functions done at GDGJohannesburg

Transcript

1. Introduction to Cloud Functions
   Peter-John Welcome
   @pjapplez
   

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2. What is Cloud Functions?
   ● Serverless Environment (Backend Code)
   ● Microservice
   ● Code as infrastructure
   

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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
   

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4. How does it work?
   Built on express, which is a node web
   serving framework.
   ● Http endpoints
   ● Handles firebase event.
   

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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
   

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6. Languages
   

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7. Time
   Demo
   

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8. Unit Testing
   https://firebase.google.com/docs/functions/unit-testing
   

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9. Running Locally
   $ firebase serve --only functions, hosting (Https endpoint functions)
   $ firebase experimental: functions : shell --port 11111 ( function triggers- Firebase)
   

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10. Running on CI/CD
    https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/deployment_integrations/#firebase
    

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11. Thanks!
    Contact me:
    google.com/u/0/+PeterJohnWelcome
    Twitter :
    @pjapplez
    pjwelcome@gmail.com
    Peter-johnwelcome.co.za
    https://github.com/pjwelcome
    

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