Deno in Docker on Google Cloud Run

This weekend I read a lot about Deno, “A secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript.” It’s built on V8 and Rust, by Ryan Dahl, the creator of Node.js and it would basically ‘fix’ many things that are ‘wrong’ about Node.js and would be a “fun and productive scripting environment”.

It intrigued me, so I took a first look...

Google Task queues on GCP with Google Cloud Functions

At our company Embrosa we have many microservices, that all handle one specific part of our platform. An example is that when a user profile is changed, some of this data is synchronized to other services, by using a Firestore triggered Cloud Function.

This looks like this:

We needed queueing