Introduction to Google Cloud Functions

Cloud Functions are Google’s offering for serverless architecture (similar to AWS lambdas). What is serverless? Before we look into how to use Cloud Functions, we should understand some things about it. Code needs servers to run, so serverless doesn’t mean there are no servers, it means that we don’t need to manage those servers ourselves. In a usual server based architecture, we might create a service and deploy it to a machine. This service will be running in the machine all the time waiting f...