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Published inJun 2023
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Safeer CM
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Safeer CM is a technology generalist with more than 16 years of experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps, infrastructure, and platform engineering. A site reliability engineer by trade, Safeer has managed large-scale production infrastructures at internet giants like Yahoo and LinkedIn and is currently working at Flipkart. He has experience in cloud management and consulting for budding and established startups as a cloud architect. He is an ambassador of the Continuous Delivery Foundation and contributes to the CD and DevOps communities. As a technology speaker, blogger and meetup organizer, Safeer enjoys mentoring new technology talents, especially in the fields of SRE and DevOps.
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Cloud Functions is the Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) offering from GCP. Premiered in 2017, it was envisioned to provide a simple and intuitive developer experience for deploying lightweight code snippets that responds to events. Similar to other vendors’ FaaS offerings, it comes with the same baseline promises – pay for what you use, billed only for execution time and resource usage, scale up and down as and when required, and so on. What distinguishes the serverless compute offerings from GCP – Cloud Functions and its powerful cousin, Cloud Run – is that they are based on an open source FaaS framework called Knative. This helps in portability as you can run them in local environments, on-premises, with GCP, as well as any other platform that supports Knative, such as Red Hat OpenShift.

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Cloud Functions are lightweight functions built for a single purpose. They provide all the usual features that most FaaS vendors provide...

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Safeer CM

Safeer CM is a technology generalist with more than 16 years of experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps, infrastructure, and platform engineering. A site reliability engineer by trade, Safeer has managed large-scale production infrastructures at internet giants like Yahoo and LinkedIn and is currently working at Flipkart. He has experience in cloud management and consulting for budding and established startups as a cloud architect. He is an ambassador of the Continuous Delivery Foundation and contributes to the CD and DevOps communities. As a technology speaker, blogger and meetup organizer, Safeer enjoys mentoring new technology talents, especially in the fields of SRE and DevOps.
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