Tips from deploying my first Python Google Cloud Function

Richard Peterson
3 min readOct 13, 2021

Some quirks of Cloud Functions.

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The python script was a relatively simple ETL job that tested my abilities to architect and debug, but it was a great experience in deploying production code under constraints. The script simply compared two Google Sheets, and updated the target page with new or updated landing values. The script fires from a Cloud Scheduler message…

Richard Peterson

SQL CSI by day and Northwestern University Master’s in Public Policy Student by night