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Hands-On Serverless Computing

By : Kuldeep Chowhan
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Hands-On Serverless Computing

By: Kuldeep Chowhan

Overview of this book

Serverless applications and architectures are gaining momentum and are increasingly being used by companies of all sizes. Serverless software takes care of many problems that developers face when running systems and servers, such as fault tolerance, centralized logging, horizontal scalability, and deployments. You will learn how to harness serverless technology to rapidly reduce production time and minimize your costs, while still having the freedom to customize your code, without hindering functionality. Upon finishing the book, you will have the knowledge and resources to build your own serverless application hosted in AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, and will have experienced the benefits of event-driven technology for yourself. This hands-on guide dives into the basis of serverless architectures and how to build them using Node.js as a programming language, Visual Studio Code for code editing, and Postman for quickly and securely developing applications without the hassle of configuring and maintaining infrastructure on three public cloud platforms.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Triggers

Let's learn about Google Cloud Function triggers. Whenever you create a response to an event that was invoked when new files are added to Google Cloud Storage or whenever a new message is published to Google Cloud Pub/Sub, it is called a trigger. A trigger on a Google Cloud Function is a declaration/definition stating that you want the Google Cloud Function to be invoked in response to a certain set of events. You need to associate the Google Cloud Function to a trigger, which allows you to act upon the events that invoked the Google Cloud Function.

Triggers and Functions are associated with each other on a many-to-one basis. You can only have one trigger on a Google Cloud Function. However, you can have multiple Google Cloud Functions invoked from the same cloud event within the Google Cloud Platform.

Let's take a look at different triggers that are available...