Easy, scalable serverless backend for mobile/web app
summary
Concrete claims and demos: Firebase powers auth, Realtime DB vs Firestore tradeoffs, Cloud Functions and new gen‑2 concurrency with 100 concurrent requests per instance, Firebase ML and extensions (including a PaLM‑backed chatbot extension). Examples use an Angular-based web app and show how auth, DB rules, callable functions and deployed extensions are wired and monitored. A prototype product (a job‑application service) is described as built on this stack and run successfully at hobby/startup scale.
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chapters (24)
- 0:00Start
- 2:56Challenges in Scaling and Maintaining Dedicated Backend Infrastructure
- 3:37Advantages of Serverless Backend Solutions
- 8:07What is Firebase?
- 8:50Key Firebase Features
- 10:09Benefits of Using Firebase
- 11:48Overview Firebase Authentication
- 14:07Setting Up Firebase Authentication
- 15:42What happens when user sign-in
- 16:56Best Practices for Secure Authentication
- 18:56Realtime Database Firebase
- 19:33Firestore
- 21:14Data Operations
- 23:20What are Cloud Functions?
- 25:28Benefits and Use Cases
- 26:25Setting Up & Deploying Cloud Functions
- 31:48Firebase Extensions
- 33:50Chatbot with PaLM API Latest extension
- 36:12Firebase ML
- 36:44Pre-built APIs for Common ML Tasks
- 37:35Custom Model... ...Deployment and Hosting
- 38:23Other Firebase Features
- 40:20Key Points
- 40:56What next
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