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Cloud Functions

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Updated
Moved
HOLD
2021-09-07

What is it​

Cloud Functions is a Functions-as-a-Service runtime in Google Cloud for building completely serverless functions, in an array of possible languages, that handle HTTP requsets or Cloud Pub/Sub messages.

Why it's on hold​

We prefer Cloud Run over Cloud Functions, especially when developing Go services.

We have found that it's easier to reason about the startup and shutdown behavior of a plain Go application orchestrated by Cloud Run, compared with a Go application orchestrated with Cloud Functions, where the special init() function or sync.Once is commonly used for application initialization.