This tutorial walkthrough the benefits of serverless and in-particular why you would want to use Google Cloud Functions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for building your node.js based services. We look at the UI and Dashboards of Google Cloud Functions and create a new service both through the UI and the GCloud Shell. In addition we spend time deep-diving some of the metrics on the dashboards and look at how express is used at the heart of the Cloud Functions platform for nodejs.