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You're reading from Hands-On Serverless Computing Build, run and orchestrate serverless applications using AWS Lambda, Microsoft Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788836654

Length 350 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Serverless

Author (1):

Kuldeep Chowhan

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Title Page

Dedication

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Foreword

Contributors

Preface

1. What is Serverless Computing? FREE CHAPTER

2. Development Environment, Tools, and SDKs

3. Getting Started with AWS Lambda

4. Triggers and Events for AWS Lambda

5. Your First Serverless Application on AWS

6. Serverless Orchestration on AWS

7. Getting Started with Azure Functions

8. Triggers and Bindings for Azure Functions

9. Your First Serverless Application on Azure

10. Getting Started with Google Cloud Functions

11. Triggers and Events for Google Cloud Functions

12. Your First Serverless Application on Google Cloud

13. Reference Architecture for a Web App

14. Reference Architecture for a Real-time File Processing

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Index

Events

Let's learn how to create and assign events to Google Cloud Functions. Associating these triggers with Google Cloud Functions will execute a function when an event is fired on the Google Cloud services. Within a Google Cloud Platform, such as AWS and Azure, cloud events are emitted when there is a change in the data in the storage system or database when new files are added to Google Cloud Storage or messages that are being sent to Google Cloud Pub/Sub. At the time of writing (July 2018), Google Cloud Functions only supported the following four event types:

HTTP
Google Cloud Storage
Google Pub/Sub
Firebase (https://firebase.google.com/)

Let's learn more about the event parameter and triggers for Google Cloud Functions in the next sections.

Event parameter

The event parameter, which is the first parameter that Google Cloud Functions accepts, holds the data associated with the event that triggered the execution of Google Cloud Functions. The actual event data is available within the data...