Mary [email protected]
You previously used Cloud Functions as the runtime for your application. However, while Cloud Functions are great for occasionally running code triggered by events, they are not intended to be used for long-running services. As the service will need to set up the trie data structure in memory, you don’t want to have to do that each time there is a request. Instead, the requirement is for a long-running service, or at least one that can handle a large number of requests once started.
As you want a service that is long-running and can scale dynamically, you will use Cloud Run. In Cloud Run, instances are referred to as services rather than functions in Cloud Functions.