Given the interest and training going on around cloud resources, I thought I would share a quick note about using Google Cloud "serverless" computing.
http://bit.ly/3aH2jAZ In this post, I provide a (rough) walkthrough of build a simple web API that returns NCBI GEO metadata in json format, covering the relatively common use case of wanting performant access to GEO metadata in a standard computer-readable format. The post touches on: - basic python web API development (using the OpenAPI standard) - containerization using docker - deploying the app locally - creating a serverless, publicly-available web service for delivering GEO metadata as json Code and command-lines are included to reproduce the process yourself. Sean -- Sean Davis, MD, PhD Center for Cancer Research National Cancer Institute National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892 https://seandavi.github.io/ https://twitter.com/seandavis12
