Firebase at I/O 2017 with James Tamplin and Andrew Lee

Fresh from Google I/O, Mark and Francesc are joined by the co-founders of Firebase, James Tamplin and Andrew Lee to let us in on all the new and awesome things that were announced!

About James Tamplin

James Tamplin is a co-founder of Firebase, and served as CEO until joining Google. He is now a Group Product Manager working on Firebase. James has a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Wisconsin. He has been a stage actor in New York, an improv comic, and has worked on two previous startups.

About Andrew Lee

Andrew co-founded Firebase in 2011 and served as CTO until Firebase joined Google. He is now an engineering lead for Firebase, focusing on infrastructure products including the Realtime Database, Hosting, Cloud Functions, and Cloud Storage. Andrew lives and works in San Francisco.

Cool things of the week

• Build and train machine learning models on our new Google Cloud TPUs announcement product research
• Introducing Google Cloud IoT Core: for securely connecting and managing IoT devices at scale announcement product

Interview

• Firebase
• What’s new from Firebase at Google I/O 2017 blog
• Previous episodes on Firebase
  • Episode #29
  • Episode #13
• Firebase Phone Authentication web android ios
• Firebase Hosting and Cloud Functions docs
• Build Modern Apps with Firebase and Google Cloud Platform (Google I/O ‘17) youtube
• Open sourcing the Firebase SDKs announcement github
• Firebase performance monitoring site docs
• Firebase SDKs for Unity and C++
• Firebase Test Lab for Games docs
• Google Analytics for Firebase docs
• Android Instance Apps site
• Try Google BigQuery today: Now with 10GB of free storage announcement
• Firebase Analytics Stream and Debug View announcement stream debug
• Firebase at Google I/O 2017 presentations

Question of the week

How do I give one of my Google Cloud Platform Project’s to another person?

• Understanding Roles in IAM docs
• Create, modify, or close your billing account help

Where can you find us next?

Francesc will be teaching at Onboard Buenos Aires and running a workshop at QCon New York

Mark is going on vacation for a few weeks - but don’t worry, he’ll still be on the podcast!