Architecting Event-driven Serverless Solutions Using Google Cloud Functions
In this course, you’ll learn how to effectively deploy serverless functions using Google Cloud Functions with the aid of several triggers. Following this course, you will be very comfortable writing, deploying, and executing Google Cloud Functions.
What you'll learn
Cloud Functions are lightweight serverless units of computing which can be deployed when external events occur. In this course, Architecting Event-driven Serverless Solutions Using Google Cloud Functions, you will learn how you can create and configure Google Cloud Functions with a number of different types of triggers - HTTP triggers, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, as well as many others. You’ll begin by discovering the various compute services that the GCP offers as well as where Cloud Functions fit in that ecosystem. Then, you’ll study the Python and Node.js runtimes that Cloud Functions currently supports and understand how events and triggers work. Next, you’ll work with HTTP Cloud Functions which can be used to implement webhooks. Following that, you’ll configure background functions to be retried in case of errors or failures. Lastly, you’ll learn how to use Stackdriver for monitoring and error reporting from within Cloud Functions. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to easily implement Google Cloud Functions as a part of your microservices architecture.
Table of contents
- Module Overview 1m
- HTTP Requests to Cloud Functions 2m
- Deploying and Invoking an HTTP Function 4m
- Direct Triggers Using gcloud 2m
- Deploying a Function from the Command Line Using gcloud 4m
- Creating and Deploying a Cloud Function in Python 4m
- Handling Different Payload Formats and Integrating with Cloud Storage 4m
- Parsing XML Data in HTTP Requests 2m
- Handling GET and PUT Requests 3m
- Parsing Multipart Data 6m
- Deploying Cloud Functions Using Zip Files 3m
- Invoking Functions to Parse Multipart Data 4m
- Module Overview 1m
- Background Functions and Triggers 4m
- Thumbnail Generator with a Cloud Storage Trigger 5m
- Trigger the Thumbnail Image Generator 2m
- Image Annotations Using Cloud Vision APIs 6m
- Trigger the Image Annotator 2m
- Create Pub/Sub Topic and Publish Messages 4m
- Publish Messages Using Cloud Functions 2m
- Write and Commit Code to Cloud Source Repositories 5m
- Triggering Functions Using Pub/Sub 3m
- Module Overview 1m
- Cloud Functions Integrated with Stackdriver 1m
- Viewing Cloud Function Logs 4m
- Reading Logs from Stackdriver and Writing to Cloud Storage 3m
- Using Stackdriver Monitoring Dashboards 3m
- Configuring Alerts on Stackdriver 4m
- Best Practices 3m
- Retrying Functions 2m
- Configuring Retry on Failure 3m
- Monitoring Function Retries 3m
- Error Reporting within Cloud Functions 4m
- Summary and Further Study 2m
About the author
Janani has a Masters degree from Stanford and worked for 7+ years at Google. She was one of the original engineers on Google Docs and holds 4 patents for its real-time collaborative editing framework. After spending years working in tech in the Bay Area, New York, and Singapore at companies such as Microsoft, Google, and Flipkart, Janani finally decided to combine her love for technology with her passion for teaching. She is now the co-founder of Loonycorn, a content studio focused on providing ... more