Google Cloud Tasks

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Cloud Tasks is a cloud-based async task queue, which handle all of the complexity for you, like dispatching, retry managmement,...

A task has a structure as the following:

struct Task {
    path: String;    // URL to the worker of the task
    payload: []byte;
    header: HttpHeader;
    method: String;
    name: String;
    ...
}

The execution window for each task is 10 minutes, the task must send back success code (200-299) within this time window, otherwise, the task will be retried.

Read more:

• Create a HTTP target cloud task
• Using Cloud Tasks to trigger a Cloud Function