You've built the next hot gen AI app and have it running great on your laptop or internal server. How do you get that out to the world? Servers, right? Many times yes, but modern app development also includes serverless. What exactly is serverless? It's one of the fastest growing segments in cloud allowing developers to focus on what they're building instead of what it runs on. It is also sustainable: By choosing serverless, your app only runs when it has users whereas with a VM or server, it's up 24x7, meaning you're billed all the time. Who wants that?

This session begins with a brief review of a previous session on Serverless computing with Google Cloud, most recently delivered at the I/O Extended event in Jul 2024. If you missed this session, check out an previous recording (https://youtu.be/F3drg0HJDHw) as this workshop provides a hands-on follow-up where you get experience and build muscle-memory deploying a simple genAI web app to GCP serverless platforms.

The sample app is available in Python & JavaScript, so pick one that works best for you, or port to your favorite dev tool. The bottom-line: Whether you're a software engineer, student, researcher, data scientist, or DevOps/IT staff, you'll know how to host & run your apps (GenAI & otherwise) on Google's cloud without servers and become part of the next-generation cloud-ready workforce.

BENEFIT TO DEVELOPERS/AUDIENCE TAKEAWAYS
- Get an overview of what serverless is and its corner of cloud computing
- Learn about serverless compute platforms from Google Cloud (or other vendors/CSPs)
- Discover how to deploy GenAI and other apps to one or more of these platforms

PREREQUISITES
- General awareness of GenAI (Gemini, ChatGPT, etc.), web apps or mobile backends, API-/app-hosting, cloud computing, etc.
- Basic working skills in Python and/or Node.js
- Some experience with serverless, e.g., Lambda, may be beneficial but not required

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