Pub/Sub
Google Cloud Pub/Sub is a fully managed messaging service for real-time event ingestion and delivery. · Google Cloud · Messaging
Overview
Google Cloud Pub/Sub offers scalable, managed publish/subscribe messaging for building event-driven systems, with a generous free tier for moderate workloads.
Good fit
Use when you need scalable, reliable, real-time messaging between services or components, especially for event-driven architectures.
- event-driven systems
- microservices
- data pipelines
Not a fit
Avoid if you require strict FIFO ordering, extremely low latency, or want to avoid potential overage charges from high message volumes.
- need strict FIFO
- require on-prem deployment
- have unpredictable high-volume spikes
Quickstart · 6 steps
- Sign up for a Google Cloud account and enable billing.
- Enable the Pub/Sub API in your Google Cloud project.
- Create a Pub/Sub topic in the Cloud Console.
- Add a subscription to your topic (pull or push).
- Publish a test message to the topic.
- Consume messages from your subscription.
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