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  "name": "Google Cloud Run",
  "description": "Google Cloud Run is a managed compute platform that enables developers to run stateless containers that are invocable via web requests or Pub/Sub events. It abstracts away all infrastructure management, including provisioning, configuring, and scaling servers, allowing teams to focus solely on code.",
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      "name": "AWS Fargate"
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    {
      "slug": "vercel",
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      "slug": "knative",
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      "name": "DigitalOcean Functions / App Platform"
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  "updatedAt": "2026-04-10T04:26:07.407+00:00",
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    "website": "cloud.google.com/run",
    "founded": "2019",
    "headquarters": "Mountain View, CA",
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    "target_markets": "Software developers, DevOps teams, startups, and enterprise application modernization groups.",
    "employee_count": "Not publicly available",
    "funding_stage": "Not publicly available",
    "subcategory": "Serverless Computing / Container-as-a-Service (CaaS)"
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