Google Serverless Gripes

It is hinted at right at the bottom of the post but most of the issues outlined in here are no longer a factor as of just a couple of weeks ago I think. I’m basing that information almost entirely from this video from one of their product managers titled “what’s new in cloud run” here https://youtu.be/os2FPR9WjY0

But all of a sudden Cloud Run just went from not a realistic option for me for many of the reasons outlined in this post to an extremely attractive offering for a lot of workloads.

I know view it as something more akin to having all the benefits of a “best practices” k8s setup but with almost none of the maintenance and operational knowledge or work required.

This isn’t my personal area of expertise but it sure feels like you could build your startup on top of this infrastructure and not need to change it for a very very long time in a way that just isn’t true for other options that startups might reach for i.e Heroku for example.

If anyone else gets frustrated with Google Cloud Functions, I'd highly recommend trying Cloudflare Workers. The start time and developer experience are amazing.

(Note I'm not affiliated with Cloudflare in any way. Just a satisfied developer.)