Here are some general tips and tricks that we found useful as we used Workflows: Avoid hard-coding URLs Since Workflows is all about calling APIs and service URLs, it’s important to have some clean way to handle those URLs. You can hard-code them in your workflow definition, but the problem…

In this article, let’s revisit the topic of deploying Java apps on Cloud Run. In particular, I’ll deploy a Micronaut app, written with Java 17 (Adoptium’s Temurin), and built with Gradle. With a custom Dockerfile On Cloud Run, you deploy containerised applications, so you have to decide the way you…

It’s all Richard Seroter ‘s fault, I ended up dabbling with Golang! We were chatting about a use case using Google Cloud Workflows and a Cloud Run service implemented in Go. So it was the occasion to play a bit with Go. …

Every year in France, around mid-September, there’s a special weekend where everyone can visit some famous places, usually closed the rest of the year. That’s “ Journée du Patrimoine “. For example, you can visit places like the Elysée Palace or the Matignon Palace , if you want to see…

There are different ways to launch the execution of a workflow. In previous articles, we mentioned that you can use the gcloud command-line tool to create an execution, you can also use the various client libraries to invoke Workflows, or use the REST API . …

Workflows allows you to call APIs, whether from or hosted on Google Cloud, or any external API in the wild. A few days ago, for example, we saw an example on how to use the SendGrid API to send emails from a workflow. However, in that article, I had the…

Following up the article on writing and reading JSON files in cloud storage buckets, we saw that we could access the data of the JSON file, and use it in our workflow. Let’s have a look at a concrete use of this. Today, we’ll take advantage of this mechanism to…

For notification purposes, especially in an asynchronous way, email is a great solution. I wanted to add an email notification step in Google Cloud Workflows . Since GCP doesn’t have an email service, I looked at the various email services available in the cloud: SendGrid, Mailgun, Mailjet, and even ran…

Workflows provides several connectors for interacting with various Google Cloud APIs and services. In the past, I’ve used for example the Document AI connector to parse documents like expense receipts, or the Secret Manager connector to store and access secrets like passwords. …