Three alternatives for running your web app serverlessly

Many developers prefer serverless because it brings them automatic scaling and forces them to do less operations work. In this episode of Serverless Expeditions, we walk you through App Engine, Cloud Functions, and Cloud Run, showing you why each of these tools are viable options for computing and hosting a serverless application. Watch to learn what serverless solution best fits your applications needs!

Timestamps:
0:00 - Overview
0:42 - Introducing the Hot Maze web application
1:51 - Why Serverless?
2:27 - Deploying a web app to App Engine
3:53 - Deploying a web app to Firebase Hosting + Cloud Functions
4:52 - Deploying a web app to Cloud Run

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Product: Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, App Engine; fullname: Martin Omander, Valentin Deleplace;

[googlecloudtech]

Have questions about serverless architectures?

[megairrational]

Great video. I love it comes out with an extensive blog post and some source code. Well done and many thanks!

[divertechnology]

Nice demo, i guess im going to try it

[JasonBerryman]

It is also possible to deploy Option 2 by using Cloud Functions for Firebase, then you only need to use `firebase deploy` to deploy both the hosting AND the cloud function.

[sreehari]

Hi Martin, are all of these options free? At least for a prototype version limited to few users?

[apertureonline]

Yea so I think this mentions cloud run. Firebase is useful but I think it's non compatible with specific things I have. Does that cost money? I can't remember, but I needed the opposite of scaling. I had to scale down to localization and hefty datasets and learning. I actually have to try to jenk my way around pawn with inline python. Might be impossible.

[akauppi]

I think ”Three Google alternatives...” would be a more accurate title?

[rogerhk]

To optimise the cost, peer-to-peer file transfer within two browsers (desktop & mobile) via WebRTC sounds better. No files are uploaded to the cloud storage.

FilePizza is a good example.