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Export Firestore to dev environment

Sooner or later you need production data in your development environment to test or develop a more rich UI experience based on real life data. There are a few ways of doing this, but this is the easiest especially if your on a windows machine. You probably already have a persistent data in your dev […]

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Firebase: Unit-testing Firestore rules

Developing serverless web applications on Firebase is great. Quick and easy for new project ideas. The most important part of a Firebase deploy is the Firetore rules since the client speaks directly with the database. Todd Kerpelman at Firebase made a couple of really great videos on unit testing the security rules which is really […]

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Google Cloud Functions local testing – auto releod

Cloud Functions is Google Cloud’s event-driven serverless compute platform. Run your code locally or in the cloud without having to provision servers. Go from code to deploy with continuous delivery and monitoring tools. Cloud Functions scales up or down, so you pay only for compute resources you use. Easily create end-to-end complex development scenarios by […]

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Google Compute Engine: Monitor disk usage with Stackdriver

Setting up monitoring of your cloud servers are not only useful to get alerts when a server goes down or run out of disk. It’s also very good to have historical data over performance metrics when troubleshooting issues. In this post I cover the basic setup and issues you can run into using Stackdriver for […]

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