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Hey all - Seth from Google here. We're really excited to bring Go to Google Cloud Functions (GCF). Please try it out, give us feedback, and let us know if you have any questions!
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As we all know, it took Google so long to get this. Can you overview on what are some of the technical challenges faced? Just curious. Thanks.
Cloud Functions PM here. I can give some insight: * We've been running a private early access preview/alpha since last August. * This was our first compiled language on Cloud Functions, which came with its own set of challenges. * It took us a while to find the right approach for supporting dependencies (both Go Modules and vendoring are supported). Unlike other providers, when you deploy your source code, Cloud Func…
Would like to see some more runtimes/languages. I'm hoping AWS' recent layers implementation has made this more of a focus at Google. I'm curious how the implementation of Go has affected the ease of integrating other languages.
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Cloud Functions PM here. I can give some insight: * We've been running a private early access preview/alpha since last August. * This was our first compiled language on Cloud Functions, which came with its own set of challenges. * It took us a while to find the right approach for supporting dependencies (both Go Modules and vendoring are supported). Unlike other providers, when you deploy your source code, Cloud Func…
Thanks for the response. Would like to see more granular triggers (event types). Especially with Firebase. Also, would like to see more examples with firestore.
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As we all know, it took Google so long to get this. Can you overview on what are some of the technical challenges faced? Just curious. Thanks.
Cloud Functions PM here. I can give some insight: * We've been running a private early access preview/alpha since last August. * This was our first compiled language on Cloud Functions, which came with its own set of challenges. * It took us a while to find the right approach for supporting dependencies (both Go Modules and vendoring are supported). Unlike other providers, when you deploy your source code, Cloud Func…
Why wouldn't the binary be the deployed unit in this case?
Hey all - Seth from Google here. We're really excited to bring Go to Google Cloud Functions (GCF). Please try it out, give us feedback, and let us know if you have any questions!
What's next on the roadmap for cloud functions? Some things I'm curious about is work related to cold starts and future run times (specifically Ruby) but happy to hear about anything.
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IIRC only the Node.js runtime has the ability to be emulated locally. Is this still the case? If I wanted to test my function locally, how would I go about doing that?
Use regular "go test" for unit testing. If you're using metadata inside your function (e.g., to extract an event ID) you can use metadata.NewContext to pass into your function while testing: https://godoc.org/cloud.google.com/go/functions/metadata#New... If you just want to execute your function, create another package main and start an HTTP server, as you'd normally do. There are some examples on this page: https://…
We've used GCF for some production tasks and it's worked pretty well for us. Would like to see some more runtimes/languages. I'm hoping AWS' recent layers implementation has made this more of a focus at Google. I'm curious how the implementation of Go has affected the ease of integrating other languages.
In some ways, it helps. You start to see similar issues arise and know what to look out for when you're launching a new runtime. In other ways, every language has its peculiarities and its own set of design considerations.
Launching/polishing a completely new language still takes a decent amount of work. Launching a new version of an existing language tends to be much quicker.
We've used GCF for some production tasks and it's worked pretty well for us. Would like to see some more runtimes/languages. I'm hoping AWS' recent layers implementation has made this more of a focus at Google. I'm curious how the implementation of Go has affected the ease of integrating other languages.
We've used GCF for some production tasks and it's worked pretty well for us. Would like to see some more runtimes/languages. I'm hoping AWS' recent layers implementation has made this more of a focus at Google. I'm curious how the implementation of Go has affected the ease of integrating other languages.
> I'm curious how the implementation of Go has affected the ease of integrating other languages. In some ways, it helps. You start to see similar issues arise and know what to look out for when you're launching a new runtime. In other ways, every language has its peculiarities and its own set of design considerations. Launching/polishing a completely new language still takes a decent amount of work. Launching a new v…
Maybe even just something for compiled languages like Go, Crystal, etc that will just run the binary?