Focus on your code, not infrastructure, with Cloud Functions

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Prototype SMS joke service uses Google Cloud Functions with Twilio to serve replies, starting as a 15-line index.js with three hard-coded jokes and evolving to read a Google Sheet, then export to Cloud SQL and publish analytics to BigQuery via Pub/Sub. Latency drops from ~500ms to ~70–80ms, content editing moves to a spreadsheet, the system scales to thousands of jokes, and cost stays tiny (100k and 1M calls free, ~ $23 at ~10M).

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 2:15Story setup: Ingest startup
3. 5:05Cloud Functions simplify infra
4. 8:21MVP with hardcoded jokes
5. 10:30Jokes in Google Spreadsheet
6. 16:55Scaling with Cloud SQL
7. 20:24Adding analytics
8. 23:13Decoupling with Pub/Sub
9. 27:04Serverless cost efficiency
10. 29:13Cloud Functions use cases
11. 30:17Q&A

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