Google Cloud Functions Review

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Review of Google Cloud Functions powered by the Slant community.

Platform for triggering code from Google Cloud or other locations via HTTP.

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Pros

Pro
Supports multiple languages

Cloud Functions, as of this writing, supports JavaScript, Python, Go and Java.

Pro
Supports multiple sources of events

Cloud Functions can be triggered from PubSub and from HTTP events, for example.

Pro
Frictionless to create

There is an inline editor in Google Cloud for writing and submitting/deploying cloud functions, so while it is possible to store a Cloud function as code in a repository you can try and experiment without getting to that point.

Cons

Con
Limited languages and dependencies

Only the set of languages explicitly supported by Cloud Functions can be used; for more flexibility, I would highly recommend Google's other serverless environment, namely Cloud Run.