What is the state of serverless on GCP?

2 pointsd2xdy26y ago1 comments

In my past job I was fortunate enough to be able to build a few greenfield products that hat heavily used AWS’s serverless offerings. It was really nice and generally came out a lot cheaper for us than the alternatives, including dev time.

Current job uses GCP and a lot of Kubernetes. I’m interested in evaluating replacing some of the smaller services with Cloud Functions (or Cloud Run if it fits better)

Looking around, a lot of the tools I used at my previous job have flakey or really hindered support for GCP.

Just sort of curious what other folks are doing out there or how they might compare GCP offerings to AWS offerings

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fefb6y ago

I am using Google Function , and it is okay. I using with NodeJs10. The bad thing is limited in the zones that can be deployed. It is GA for Node 6, I believe. In general, I had many problems with cold start last year, but now it's looking better.

I didn't use yet Cloud Run, but it looks promising. If I understood well, its billing time is better than Google Function for traffic spikes. However, it is beta.

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