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Architecting Cloud-Native Serverless Solutions

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Product type Book
Published in Jun 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803230085
Pages 350 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Safeer CM Safeer CM
Profile icon Safeer CM

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1 – Serverless Essentials
2. Chapter 1: Serverless Computing and Function as a Service 3. Chapter 2: Backend as a Service and Powerful Serverless Platforms 4. Part 2 – Platforms and Solutions in Action
5. Chapter 3: Serverless Solutions in AWS 6. Chapter 4: Serverless Solutions in Azure 7. Chapter 5: Serverless Solutions in GCP 8. Chapter 6: Serverless Cloudflare 9. Chapter 7: Kubernetes, Knative and OpenFaaS 10. Chapter 8: Self-Hosted FaaS with Apache OpenWhisk 11. Part 3 – Design, Build, and Operate Serverless
12. Chapter 9: Implementing DevOps Practices for Serverless 13. Chapter 10: Serverless Security, Observability, and Best Practices 14. Chapter 11: Architectural and Design Patterns for Serverless 15. Index 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Serverless Solutions in GCP

Google Cloud is one of the three top cloud vendors today. While AWS always had the upper hand in delivering new services and adding new regions, GCP is quickly catching up with its equivalent services. Like AWS powering the Amazon e-commerce business, most of the GCP services have been powering Google’s product arrays, including GSuite, Search, YouTube, and others. This means that they have been battle tested for global workloads and are highly reliable.

It is interesting to note that GCP started with an early version of what could be called a serverless service. Google AppEngine was a trendsetter of its time in running application workloads without requiring any services to be provisioned. It was a shift from the tried and tested web hosting model and gave a lot of freedom to developers. When AWS became a formidable force in the cloud and GCP was not very fast to catch up in the initial years, the serverless trend was categorically set by AWS...

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