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Decisions about Google Cloud Run and Heroku
Clifford Crerar
Software Engineer at Bidvest Advisory Services · | 9 upvotes · 21.8K views
Run cloud service containers instead of cloud-native services
- Running containers means that your microservices are not "cooked" into a cloud provider's architecture.
- Moving from one cloud to the next means that you simply spin up new instances of your containers in the new cloud using that cloud's container service.
- Start redirecting your traffic to the new resources.
- Turn off the containers in the cloud you migrated from.
Pros of Google Cloud Run
Pros of Heroku
Pros of Google Cloud Run
- Fully managed9
- Pay per use9
- Concurrency: multiple requests sent to each container7
- Custom domains with auto SSL6
- HTTPS endpoints6
- Serverless6
- Deploy containers5
- "Invoke IAM permission" to manage authentication4
Pros of Heroku
- Easy deployment702
- Free for side projects460
- Huge time-saver374
- Simple scaling348
- Low devops skills required260
- Easy setup189
- Add-ons for almost everything174
- Beginner friendly153
- Better for startups149
- Low learning curve133
- Postgres hosting47
- Easy to add collaborators41
- Faster development30
- Awesome documentation24
- Simple rollback19
- Focus on product, not deployment18
- Easy integration15
- Natural companion for rails development15
- Great customer support11
- GitHub integration7
- No-ops6
- Painless & well documented5
- Just works3
- Free3
- PostgreSQL forking and following2
- I love that they make it free to launch a side project2
- Great UI2
- MySQL extension2
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Cons of Google Cloud Run
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Cons of Heroku
- Super expensive20
- Not a whole lot of flexibility6
- No usable MySQL option5
- Storage5
- Low performance on free tier4
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What is Google Cloud Run?
A managed compute platform that enables you to run stateless containers that are invocable via HTTP requests. It's serverless by abstracting away all infrastructure management.
What is Heroku?
Heroku is a cloud application platform – a new way of building and deploying web apps. Heroku lets app developers spend 100% of their time on their application code, not managing servers, deployment, ongoing operations, or scaling.
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What are some alternatives to Google Cloud Run and Heroku?
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda is a compute service that runs your code in response to events and automatically manages the underlying compute resources for you. You can use AWS Lambda to extend other AWS services with custom logic, or create your own back-end services that operate at AWS scale, performance, and security.
Google App Engine
Google has a reputation for highly reliable, high performance infrastructure. With App Engine you can take advantage of the 10 years of knowledge Google has in running massively scalable, performance driven systems. App Engine applications are easy to build, easy to maintain, and easy to scale as your traffic and data storage needs grow.
AWS Fargate
AWS Fargate is a technology for Amazon ECS and EKS* that allows you to run containers without having to manage servers or clusters. With AWS Fargate, you no longer have to provision, configure, and scale clusters of virtual machines to run containers.
Firebase
Firebase is a cloud service designed to power real-time, collaborative applications. Simply add the Firebase library to your application to gain access to a shared data structure; any changes you make to that data are automatically synchronized with the Firebase cloud and with other clients within milliseconds.
Serverless
Build applications comprised of microservices that run in response to events, auto-scale for you, and only charge you when they run. This lowers the total cost of maintaining your apps, enabling you to build more logic, faster. The Framework uses new event-driven compute services, like AWS Lambda, Google CloudFunctions, and more.
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