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My tiny team has been using Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, and Apache Beam(Dataflow) to process tens of millions of daily events. I'm middle of the road on them. Pr
by easton_s 6y ago
My tiny team has been using Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, and Apache Beam(Dataflow) to process tens of millions of daily events. I'm middle of the road on them.
Pro:
- They are stupid fast to develop, deploy, and update.
- Firebase tooling emulators makes local dev much easier.
- Simple enough a developer can build, deploy and monitor;
Cost less then hiring another person to handle devops.
- Now has decent IAM restrictions
- Baked in access to almost all other GCP tools.
Con:
- Like any google product could be deprecated at any time.
- They have poor versioning compared to App Engine or Cloud Run. No rollback, A/B, or multi-version deployments
- Cold starts are slow.
- Like any google product could be deprecated at any time.
- wing-_-nuts 6y agoRegarding cold start time; I am luke warm on golang, but I think lambdas / functions are one area where they shine. Start time is pretty quick for a golang function, and memory usage is low. Also, from what I understand it's one of the few statically typed languages supported on gcf. I think my team will be shifting to use java more, just out of sheer familiarity, but golang works nicely for functions.