What business value can Firebase provide?

Developer agility comes from building systems composed of small, independent units of functionality focused on doing one thing well, so how does Cloud Functions help improve developer agility?

Cloud Functions lets organizations that really value time to market build apps quickly. Cloud Functions lets organizations build and deploy services at the level of a single function, not at the level of entire applications, containers, or VMs. Cloud Functions lets organizations deploy and maintain a fleet of VMs through a series of containers. Cloud Functions […]

What is Kubernetes Engine?

Kubernetes Engine provides practically unlimited computing power using virtual machines (VMs) in the cloud. Kubernetes Engine is a solution meant to help organizations achieve zero ops. Kubernetes Engine is built on the closed-source Kubernetes system, making it easy to orchestrate container clusters or groups of containers. Kubernetes Engine is a managed environment for deploying containerized apps. […]

Related to ease of use, organizations can focus on their app, not their infrastructure, because Cloud Spanner:

Distributes organizations’ load-balanced resources in single or multiple regions around the globe, close to their users, to help them meet high-availability requirements. Eliminates complex database tasks so there is no need to engineer a complex replication or backup infrastructure. Reduces network latency, offloads some work from the origin server, and reduces serving costs. Provides a layer […]