APIS and techniques
Google Vision and OCR
This is the first step in Making sense of Ocr – getting a pdf turned into a JSON map. Mechanics First of all just load your pdf file somewhere in cloud storage, then I’ll use this code […]
Cloud Functions
Cloud Functions
Google Cloud Run on Kubernetes
I had originally planned just to use cloud functions for some of the work referred to in Google cloud platform, but since I’m running a Kubernetes cluster anyway, making that cluster scalable to deal with cloud […]
APIS and techniques
More cloud streaming
In Stream content to Google Cloud Storage I covered how you could stream content (in this case a video file) from a hosted URL to an object on cloud storage in preparation for labelling it with the […]
APIS and techniques
Stream content to Google Cloud Storage
This article looks at the Node implementation to stream content directly to google cloud storage, and we’ll look at how to convert that to a Cloud run function in a later one. Note that although […]
Cloud Functions
Rate limiting – Firestore and Firebase cloud functions
This is one of a series of articles about Going serverless with Firebase. You many want to read about Firebase cloud functions and Custom domains and ssl with Firebase hosting before this article. Rate limiting So you’ve created your cloud […]
Analytics
Using Google analytics as a database for api usage statistics
This is one of a series of articles about Going serverless with Firebase. You many want to read about Firebase cloud functions and Custom domains and ssl with Firebase hosting before this article. The dashboard Ephemeral Exchange provides a history of […]
Cloud Functions
Mapping custom domains to cloud functions
This is one of a series of articles about Going serverless with Firebase. You many want to read about Firebase cloud functions and Custom domains and ssl with Firebase hosting before this article. Redirecting requests to your custom domain Now […]
Cloud Functions
Firebase cloud functions
This is one of a series of articles about Going serverless with Firebase What are Cloud functions There are both Google and Firebase branded cloud functions. They are probably the same thing under the hood, but […]
Apps Script & Java Script
Controlling the demo
With a system with many moving parts, we need a way to see progress and to control the behavior as we go. For that I’m using A google sheet to display results so far A […]
Apps Script & Java Script
A gigantic pub crawl
I wanted to put together a gigantic demo to show (and test) the push notification capability of Ephemeral Exchange to orchestrate many things across many platforms. We’ll be linking up all these things, with the orchestration […]
Cloud Functions
Using Google Maps API with Google cloud functions
If you are thinking about using Google Cloud functions (and you should), you may be wondering how to use things like Google Maps in the context of cloud functions. Well, cloud functions allow you to run Node.js […]
Apps Script & Java Script
Migrating from App Engine to Cloud functions
Ephemeral exchange has gone serverless (for what this means see Going serverless with Firebase), and has a new home. What’s changed The back end is completely different, but the front end interface is pretty much the same […]
Cloud Functions
Going Serverless with Firebase
Ephemeral Exchange is a cross platform cache that allows you to share transient data across a range of platforms without the need for authentication, but by sharing access keys between participants. The code is open source, […]