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Cloud Functions for Firebase vs Google Cloud Run: What are the differences?
Developers describe Cloud Functions for Firebase as "Run your mobile backend code without managing servers". 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. On the other hand, Google Cloud Run is detailed as "Run stateless HTTP containers on a fully managed environment or in your own GKE cluster". 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.
Cloud Functions for Firebase and Google Cloud Run belong to "Serverless / Task Processing" category of the tech stack.
Run cloud service containers instead of cloud-native services
- Running containers means that your microservices are not "cooked" into a cloud provider's architecture.
- Moving from one cloud to the next means that you simply spin up new instances of your containers in the new cloud using that cloud's container service.
- Start redirecting your traffic to the new resources.
- Turn off the containers in the cloud you migrated from.
Pros of Cloud Functions for Firebase
- Up and running4
- Multi-region1
- Affordable1
Pros of Google Cloud Run
- HTTPS endpoints11
- Fully managed10
- Pay per use10
- Concurrency: multiple requests sent to each container7
- Deploy containers7
- Serverless7
- Custom domains with auto SSL6
- "Invoke IAM permission" to manage authentication4
- Cons0