As I’ve hinted in a previous posts, I’ve been experimenting with Firebase. While I’m no expert, I have learned a few things that I’d like to share and document. Firebase What is Firebase? It’s a unique hosting platform that is owned by Google and runs on the Google Cloud. What’s unique about it? In overly simple terms, it’s a tool set for offering a backend as a service. You write an app (javascript, iOS or Android) and use the Firebase SDK to perform the backend tasks such as authentication and data persistance. The marketing makes the case for this to be a great platform for small applications to get off the ground and then it can continue to grow. There’re also many more features and services around A/B testing, analytics and more. ...

Just a quick update that I’ve moved the site over to a full domain, truggeri.com. Github Pages is really cool about offering this feature with their hosting, so along with CloudFlare I’m up and running on my own domain. In the future I plan on adding my resume and maybe a few more static pages to the site, but for now it works. I’ll soon have a new post on my experimentation with Firebase and Cloud Firestore. ...

I’ve been wanting to get this developer blog going for a while. Lots of things get in the way, work, home life, pets, family, other side projects. But I’m happy to make this first post! Why do I call this a developer blog? I make the distinction because posts here will focus on developer, software engineering topics. It’s meant to remove the burden of doing a full Dev.to or Medium post that may require more time and research. This is meant to be more fast, rough and just for the knowledge. ...