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Overview of Cloud Tasks

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Overview of Cloud Tasks

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- [Instructor] Cloud Tasks lets us create tasks and execute them in the background. There are two types of tasks. App engine tasks and HTTP target tasks. App engine tasks target end points within an app engine application. HTTP target tasks can target any publicly available URL. The two main components of Cloud Tasks are tasks and cues. Tasks are basically each HTTP requests that will be executed in the background. Each task contains a task name, which is automatically generated for us if we don't define it. A target POST URL and a payload, which is what Cloud Task we'll send the request to. An execution schedule in the future if we want to define it. Otherwise, Cloud Task will try to execute it as soon as possible, depending on the configuration. And finally, a queue to place a task in. Now queues are where tasks go into and queues manage execution of those tasks. Queues control the rate of execution of tasks per…

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