I've been curious about this for a while, anyone willing to shed some light even at a higher level!
Ask HN: How do serverless/cloud functions work underneath?
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Re: Ask HN: How do serverless/cloud functions work underneath?
#2Is Google broken for you?
Re: Ask HN: How do serverless/cloud functions work underneath?
#3Is Google broken for you?
Where I'm from, yes. Thanks for making privileged assumptions.
Re: Ask HN: How do serverless/cloud functions work underneath?
#4I speculate it's just containers, repurposed solely for the purposes of serving HTTP APIs.
When you "deploy" a cloud function I think it means it rebuilds the container image and replaces the running instance of the container.
I imagine that e.g. the usual 60s "timeout" of a cloud function just means they kill the container after 60s?
And maybe e.g. Firestore triggers means that Firestore maintains event handlers that spawn a container (your "trigger") to run the code you want for that event?
Re: Ask HN: How do serverless/cloud functions work underneath?
#5You can also check out how https://www.openfaas.com/ works.