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You're reading from Hands-On Serverless Computing with Google Cloud Build, deploy, and containerize apps using Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, and cloud-native technologies

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838827991

Length 320 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

Concepts

Serverless

Author (1):

Richard Rose

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: App Engine

2. Introducing App Engine FREE CHAPTER

3. Developing with App Engine

4. Section 2: Google Cloud Functions

5. Introducing Lightweight Functions

6. Developing Cloud Functions

7. Exploring Functions as a Service

8. Cloud Functions Labs

9. Section 3: Google Cloud Run

10. Introducing Cloud Run

11. Developing with Cloud Run

12. Developing with Cloud Run for Anthos

13. Cloud Run Labs

14. Section 4: Building a Serverless Workload

15. Building a PDF Conversion Service

16. Consuming Third-Party Data via a REST API

17. Assessments

18. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Chapter 1: Introducing App Engine

Push Queue and Pull Queue are the types of service dispatch that are supported by task queues.
The two levels of service supported by memcache are Shared Memcache and Dedicated Memcache.
Cloud Datastore is a managed schemaless (NoSQL) document database.
Language supported by GAE: Python, Go, Node, and PHP.
IP traffic, Cookie, and Random are the forms of traffic-splitting algorithms that are supported on GAE.
The purpose of GFE in relation to GAE is routing of Google App Engine traffic through an autoscaling infrastructure.
The three types of scaling supported by GAE are Automatic, Basic, and Manual.
Task queues mechanism is used to isolate long-lived workloads for efficiency purposes from the HTTP request/response life cycle.

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Authors (1)

Rose

Rich Rose has worked in IT for over twenty years and holds many industry certifications. Rich is the author of Hands-On Serverless Computing with Google Cloud. As someone who works with the cloud every day, Rich is a strong proponent of cloud certifications. Gaining expertise in an area is not the end of the journey. It is the start of realising your own potential. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with his family and playing the guitar. Recently he has updated his blog to include his development side projects and general computing tips. Acknowledgement: I would like to acknowledge the time, support and energy of Dawn, Bailey, Elliot, Noah and Amelia. Without your assistance, it would be impossible to achieve the possible.

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