Introduction to Google Cloud Platform

Google cloud platform

Google Cloud Platform is a suite of cloud computing services that runs on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its end-user products, such as Google Search, Gmail, file storage, and YouTube.

The public cloud provider of choice in this course is also Google Cloud. More specifically, we use Firebase Hosting, with Cloud Firestore as the database layer, and Firebase Cloud Functions for independent, event-driven services.

Sapper generates a static version of the web application. These static assets, such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and images, are served by Firebase Hosting.

Firestore supports function triggers, such as when a document is created, updated, or deleted. When one of these events occurs, a Cloud Function will trigger automatically. This allows for complete decoupling of the frontend web application code and the backend functionality.