Cloud Functions for Firebase vs Google Cloud Run

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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.

Decisions about Cloud Functions for Firebase and Google Cloud Run
Clifford Crerar
Software Engineer at Bidvest Advisory Services · | 9 upvotes · 66.3K views

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.
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Pros of Cloud Functions for Firebase
Pros of Google Cloud Run
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    Up and running
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    Multi-region
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    Affordable
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    HTTPS endpoints
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    Fully managed
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    Pay per use
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    Concurrency: multiple requests sent to each container
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    Deploy containers
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    Serverless
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    Custom domains with auto SSL
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    "Invoke IAM permission" to manage authentication
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    Cons

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What is 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.

What is 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.

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What are some alternatives to Cloud Functions for Firebase and Google Cloud Run?
Firebase
Firebase is a cloud service designed to power real-time, collaborative applications. Simply add the Firebase library to your application to gain access to a shared data structure; any changes you make to that data are automatically synchronized with the Firebase cloud and with other clients within milliseconds.
Google Cloud Functions
Construct applications from bite-sized business logic billed to the nearest 100 milliseconds, only while your code is running
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.
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.
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.
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