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This is the 11th launch from Google Cloud Platform. View more

Google Cloud Run

Bringing serverless to containers

Run stateless HTTP containers on a fully managed environment or in your own GKE cluster.

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Developer Tools•Tech

Launch Team

Steren Giannini

Google Cloud Platform

Maker

Proud to present Cloud Run, the product I have been working on as a PM for the past 2 years. Feel free to ask questions here and share feedback

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6yr ago

nahtnam

Mercury

@steren Hey! Congrats on the launch! I was wondering if the containers go to sleep? If they do, do you have any statistics on how fast apps take to cold boot?

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6yr ago

Steren Giannini

Google Cloud Platform

Maker

@nahtnam there is no guarantee about how long we keep containers warm, it depends on many factors. In practice, at least minutes. I have seen a container of mine running for days. (Of course you do not pay when no request reaches it). Cold start depends mostly entirely about what your code does at startup (not on the size of the image).

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6yr ago

nahtnam

Mercury

@steren Great! And do you have any information on what the overhead is for the cold start ups? For example, if my server takes 50ms to boot, how much overhead does Cloud Run add? 10ms or 100ms, etc?

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6yr ago

Steren Giannini

Google Cloud Platform

Maker

@nahtnam not sure how much our system adds by itself. I will write an article to give more details. Most of the time comes from what files are loaded in memory and any initialisation that the code does before listening for requests.

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6yr ago

Nanda

@steren , awesome new service for gcp. I have been using GAE using flex environment and my containers. How is this different? thanks and congrats

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6yr ago

Steren Giannini

Google Cloud Platform

Maker

@webforspeed the pricing and scaling capabilities of Cloud Run are closer to Google Cloud Functions. Flex runs on VMs, so does not scale to zero and takes longer to scale up.

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6yr ago

Nanda

@steren Gotcha thank you.

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6yr ago

Kiura

Guard.dm

Hi, I am new to google's ecosystem and I am not sure what to use, currently I am using GKE and cloud sql and it would be very interesting to compare this to GKE and GAE in terms of pricing and manual maintenance required.

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6yr ago

Steren Giannini

Google Cloud Platform

Maker

@kura955 thanks for the feedback. We are working on a guide to help pick compute options.

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6yr ago

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Aditya Santhanam

used this to build Thunai

Thunai

(956 points)

Ensures reliable, scalable cloud infrastructure with global reach.

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12d ago

Paul Anthony Williams

used this to build ittybit

ittybit

(366 points)

There’s merits to all the hyperscale clouds but we’ve chosen GCP for several of our core services. They get containers right with Cloud Run, we use PubSub heavily for async workflows, and Gemini has first-class models at a range of price points.

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4d ago

Ignas Lunėnas

used this to build Ycode AI

Ycode

(272 points)

Reliable infrastructure for hosting and scaling.

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5d ago

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Malav Shah

•6 reviews

Amazing for the most bit, I do feel like they are not as advance as AWS. Even their product offerings arent as mature as AWS. For example AWS has their own SMTP offering which you can use to build an email notification system. With GCP you are forced to go through a third party like SendGrid.

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4mo ago