GCP Serverless Updates

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Overview of Google Cloud's serverless offerings beyond App Engine and Cloud Functions, explaining how Google App Engine and Cloud infrastructure enable apps like Snapchat to scale without developers managing servers. Presents what runs under the hood and highlights recent serverless additions from GCP, aimed at deploying apps or functions with usage-based billing and no fixed server costs.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:15A big global network of data centers
3. 4:50Serverless operational spectrum
4. 6:39Demo: Sharing pictures
5. 16:27Double the memory!
6. 16:40App Engine Java 11 (beta)
7. 19:26Node 8 with async / await
8. 20:50Environment variables
9. 22:23Security controls
10. 26:22Cloud Run - Container contract

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