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...