Some beans and gems, some snakes and elephants, with Java 17, Ruby 3, Python 3.10 and PHP 8.1 in App Engine and Cloud Functions

Time to spill the beans and show the gems, to our friendly snakes and elephants: we’ve got some great news for Java, Ruby, Python and PHP serverless developers today. Google App Engine and Cloud Functions are adding new modern runtimes, allowing you to update to the major version release trains of those programming languages. In short, here’s what’s new: Access to App Engine legacy bundled services for Java 11/17, Python 3 and Go 1.12+ runtimes, is Generally Available The Java 17, Ruby 3.0, Python 3.10, and PHP 8.1 runtimes come into preview in App Engine and Cloud Functions Let’s have a close