Working with Cloud Functions allows isolated and standalone components to create extended functionality. These components or microservices offer an excellent way to build your applications as decoupled architecture. In this example, we will go back to basics and learn how to extend our knowledge to call Google Cloud APIs.
Events provide the ability to react to system notifications associated with a provider. As outlined in earlier chapters on Google Cloud, these providers present multiple options in which to extend services through defined provider interfaces such as Cloud Pub/Sub and Cloud Storage.
We have already looked at the HTTP functions invoked using a URL. Utilizing the same semantic notation (for example, GET/POST) and signature (for example, request/response) for HTTP communications, these types of functions are well understood...