Introduction to Cloud Functions
Peter-John Welcome
@pjapplez
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What is Cloud Functions?
● Serverless Environment (Backend Code)
● Microservice
● Code as infrastructure
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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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How does it work?
Built on express, which is a node web
serving framework.
● Http endpoints
● Handles firebase event.