Richard Rose - Hands-On Serverless Computing with Google Cloud: Build, deploy, and containerize apps using Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, and cloud-native technologies

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Richard Rose is a lab architect at Google Cloud and has worked in the IT industry for over 20 years. During this time, he has focused on infrastructure, security, and application development for several global organizations . More recently, he has delivered the ever-popular Google Cloud Professional Cloud Security Engineer course, as well as appearing at major technology events such as Google Next. You can follow him on Twitter: @coder_rosey.

JustinGrayston originally programmed and engineered music, but, in the early 2000s, started building web applications. He joined Psycle Interactive, a digital agency in the UK and Spain, and became Technical Director. He started using Google App Engine in 2009 and headed up builds for custom YouTube experiences, including YouTube IPL Cricket, the royal wedding of William and Kate , YT Symphony, YT Spacelab, and YT IOC London Olympics, along with other sites for Google. He has an interest in both backend and frontend technologies, favoring serverless backend services with PWA clients, as well as CI/CD and developer team culture and productivity. Since 2017, Justin has worked at Google as a Google Cloud Customer Engineer working with large enterprise accounts.

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There has been a significant buzz surrounding the world of serverless and the vast potential it brings to a new generation of developers. In Hands-On Serverless Computing with Google Cloud, we focus on the three serverless platforms offered by Google Cloud: App Engine, Cloud Functions, and Cloud Run. Each section will provide a high-level introduction to the product and outline the main attributes of each technology. At the end of the book, two case studies are presented to illustrate the power of serverless. The aim of these case studies is to demonstrate how to manage serverless workloads on Google Cloud .

The audience for this book is those individuals who are working on Google Cloud and who want to understand how to integrate serverless technologies with their projects. The book content covers the primary products available on Google Cloud for serverless workloads. In addition, there are multiple examples designed to help developers build serverless applications on Google Cloud with confidence.

, Introducing App Engine, provides a high-level overview of App Engine, the first serverless platform released by Google back in 2008 (yes, over a decade ago). The chapter provides you with an understanding of what App Engine is, before going into the details of the supporting components.

, Developing with App Engine, gives you an overview of what is possible with App Engine. In this chapter, we illustrate the critical elements of the platform to show how easy it is to have even the most basic application effortlessly achieve scale and resilience without requiring additional maintenance.