GCP

The more we put our resources on cloud platforms, the more we need to communicate with those resources. One method that provides more control than the standard CLI tools available without requiring a huge investment of learning or time is to use the SDKs for Go or another programming language. To get started, let's consider a few methods for creating clients and authenticating with AWS and GCP.

It's the end of an era for one of the pioneers in cloud platforms. As Heroku sunsets its free tier, the options for app platforms are as diverse as ever.

Let's use cloud functions to perform some file conversions for us. Why cloud functions? They allow us to specify a unique runtime environment and tap into other cloud services we're already using.