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Who is Google Cloud Functions best for?
Quick fit guide: Who is Google Cloud Functions best for, who should avoid it, and what typically forces a switch.
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Best use cases for Google Cloud Functions
- GCP-first teams building event-driven backends
- Lightweight APIs and background processing tied to Google Cloud services
- Workloads with spiky traffic patterns
- Teams wanting managed triggers without running servers
Who should avoid Google Cloud Functions?
- Edge latency is required for request-path compute
- You need maximum portability across clouds as a primary constraint
- Your workload is sustained and compute-heavy with predictable baseline usage
Upgrade triggers for Google Cloud Functions
- Tail latency/cold start issues become visible in synchronous endpoints
- Need stronger observability and standardized retry/idempotency patterns
- Spend becomes unpredictable and requires workload math + architectural changes
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