Google Cloud Next 2024 Review Part 2 - Google Cloud Serverless for Java Developers

To solve the complexity of infrastructure management and the cost inefficiency caused by idle instances that occur in MSA (Microservices architecture) environments, Serverless is gaining attention as an alternative. Serverless automates server infrastructure management to reduce the burden of provisioning, charges only for what is used, and supports rapid Autoscaling.

GCP offers event-driven Cloud Functions and container-based Cloud Run. In particular, Cloud Run is a fully managed platform that lets you run containers without infrastructure setup.

The major Cloud Run updates revealed at Google Cloud Next 2024 are as follows:

• Support for mounting NFS and CloudStorage Fuse file system volumes
• Security patching without redeployment or downtime
• Support for Deterministic URL
• Resource optimization and natural language-based configuration recommendations using Gemini
• Support for Multi-region services

Compared to GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine), Cloud Run offers greater management convenience but less flexibility. Therefore, it is efficient to use the two technologies in a complementary manner depending on the purpose of the service.