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June 20, 2026 Engineering

What are cloud functions? A practical tour with real code

A from-scratch explanation of what cloud functions actually are, the problem they solve, and three real-world examples — an image-resize trigger, a scheduled report, and a webhook handler — written in JavaScript, Python, and Go with line-by-line explanations of what each function does.

#cloud functions#serverless#javascript#python#go#aws lambda#google cloud#infrastructure
June 19, 2026 Engineering

gcloud, Firebase, and why I keep paying for a Workspace account

A working tour of Google Cloud and Firebase — what each one actually is, where the line between them sits, how they integrate through a shared project and IAM, and why a paid Google Workspace account ends up being the quiet keystone that ties it all together.

#google cloud#firebase#gcloud#google workspace#infrastructure#serverless#apps script
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