FaaS vs Google Cloud Functions

Overview

FaaS

Stacks5

Followers28

Votes1

Google Cloud Functions

Stacks478

Followers479

Votes25

FaaS vs Google Cloud Functions: What are the differences?

FaaS: Functions as a Service (on Docker Swarm). FaaS is a platform for building serverless functions on Docker Swarm Mode with first class metrics. Any UNIX process can be packaged as a function in FaaS enabling you to consume a range of web events without repetitive boiler-plate coding; Google Cloud Functions: A serverless environment to build and connect cloud services. Construct applications from bite-sized business logic billed to the nearest 100 milliseconds, only while your code is running.

FaaS and Google Cloud Functions can be primarily classified as "Serverless / Task Processing" tools.

FaaS is an open source tool with 14.8K GitHub stars and 1.17K GitHub forks. Here's a link to FaaS's open source repository on GitHub.

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Advice on FaaS, Google Cloud Functions

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Software Engineer at Bidvest Advisory Services

Mar 28, 2020

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Detailed Comparison

FaaS	Google Cloud Functions
FaaS is a platform for building serverless functions on Docker Swarm Mode with first class metrics. Any UNIX process can be packaged as a function in FaaS enabling you to consume a range of web events without repetitive boiler-plate coding.	Construct applications from bite-sized business logic billed to the nearest 100 milliseconds, only while your code is running
Statistics
Stacks 5	Stacks 478
Followers 28	Followers 479
Votes 1	Votes 25
Pros & Cons
Pros 1 Simple way to build serverless applications	Pros 7 Serverless Applications 5 Its not AWS 4 Simplicity 3 Free Tiers and Trainging 2 Simple config with GitLab CI/CD Cons 1 Node.js only 0 Typescript Support 0 Blaze, pay as you go
Integrations
Docker Docker Swarm	Firebase Google Cloud Storage Stackdriver

What are some alternatives to FaaS, Google Cloud Functions?

AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda is a compute service that runs your code in response to events and automatically manages the underlying compute resources for you. You can use AWS Lambda to extend other AWS services with custom logic, or create your own back-end services that operate at AWS scale, performance, and security.

Azure Functions

Azure Functions is an event driven, compute-on-demand experience that extends the existing Azure application platform with capabilities to implement code triggered by events occurring in virtually any Azure or 3rd party service as well as on-premises systems.

Google Cloud Run

A managed compute platform that enables you to run stateless containers that are invocable via HTTP requests. It's serverless by abstracting away all infrastructure management.

Serverless

Build applications comprised of microservices that run in response to events, auto-scale for you, and only charge you when they run. This lowers the total cost of maintaining your apps, enabling you to build more logic, faster. The Framework uses new event-driven compute services, like AWS Lambda, Google CloudFunctions, and more.

Knative

Knative provides a set of middleware components that are essential to build modern, source-centric, and container-based applications that can run anywhere: on premises, in the cloud, or even in a third-party data center

OpenFaaS

Serverless Functions Made Simple for Docker and Kubernetes

Nuclio

nuclio is portable across IoT devices, laptops, on-premises datacenters and cloud deployments, eliminating cloud lock-ins and enabling hybrid solutions.

Apache OpenWhisk

OpenWhisk is an open source serverless platform. It is enterprise grade and accessible to all developers thanks to its superior programming model and tooling. It powers IBM Cloud Functions, Adobe I/O Runtime, Naver, Nimbella among others.

Cloud Functions for Firebase

Cloud Functions for Firebase lets you create functions that are triggered by Firebase products, such as changes to data in the Realtime Database, uploads to Cloud Storage, new user sign ups via Authentication, and conversion events in Analytics.

AWS Batch

It enables developers, scientists, and engineers to easily and efficiently run hundreds of thousands of batch computing jobs on AWS. It dynamically provisions the optimal quantity and type of compute resources (e.g., CPU or memory optimized instances) based on the volume and specific resource requirements of the batch jobs submitted.