Official Firebase & Community Updates! — With Google events being cancelled in 2020 there may be fewer product announcements this year. Let’s take a look at was released since our last look at the State of Firebase! Cloud Functions: now are private by default! IAM permissions are checked before your function is invoked and if the…

💻 Works a dream! — It just works! I’ve written a number of articles about installing various versions of Ubuntu on my laptops over the past 2 years. I began writing these to document the process in a more consumable way than how I originally found the solutions to my installation woes. I’m happy to…

💬 Cloud Next & Google I/O 2019 updates! — Google Cloud Next 19 and Google I/O 19 were jam packed this year! This list should get you up to speed with all that’s new with Firebase so far in 2019! Dashboard IAM supported project access: manage access using GCP IAM with predefined and custom roles. BigQuery data export: Analytics, Cloud…

💻 Hassle-free GraphQL on FaaS — GraphQL is a query language that allows clients to specify which data they want to fetch while the GraphQL server exposes what is available and how it should be fetched. Combined with Cloud Functions we can deploy a serverless, auto-scaling GraphQL API to the cloud in seconds! GraphQL in a Nutshell The key to…

💻 Auto-scaling APIs in seconds — Express is a minimalist web framework for building APIs with HTTP routes, payloads and sessions on Node.js. Combining this library with Cloud Functions we can deploy a serverless, auto-scaling web server in seconds! Why use Express with FaaS? Scaling web servers is difficult due to fluctuating traffic as users come and go throughout the day…

💻 Runtime Secret Decryption with Golang & Node.js — Google’s KMS provides a mechanism to encrypt secrets, but unfortunately does not provide a secure store service. Berglas is a Golang tool built to solve this problem. It utilises KMS to encrypt your secrets, store them in a secure GCS Bucket and decrypt them at runtime. Being written in Golang…

💬 King of Serverless Compute? — Cloud Run is a new serverless compute product from GCP, best summarised by Google itself: Run stateless HTTP containers on a fully managed environment or in your own GKE cluster. For today we’re going to cover the 3 features I think make Cloud…

💻 Same problems, same solution — I usually run a fairly vanilla Ubuntu setup on my personal machines but often have little issues I need to patch (expected). I recently heard the PopOS team goes out of their way to support common hardware setups (Nvidia drives in the ISO anyone?) …

💬 Google Next 19 in a Nutshell — Amid the fanfare of the Google Cloud Run release were significant releases in the Cloud Functions space. This overview will get you up to speed with the latest features. 📈 Scaling Behaviour (Max Instances) Specify the maximum number of concurrent instances for a particular Cloud Function. This allows you to throttle the number of requests…