Authentication and Authorization are probably the most confusing aspects of working with APIS. There are so many different options that it’s hard to pick which one to use, and the examples and documentation often refer […]
We’re all used to dealing with iterables such as Arrays, Maps and Sets. Creating a collection of input items, transforming then outputting is what we do all the time. However, sometimes that’s not possible – […]
In Making a film color DNA I described how I was using both color strips and labelled content to find videos that were duplicates or similar. I’m already using ElasticSearch to disambiguate films using labels and object tracking artefacts identified by the Google Video Intelligence API. The next step is to enhance that similarity matching using the color strips of a film as finger prints. […]
In a recent article Puppeteer, Cloud Run and GraphQL together I covered a GraphQL API for Pupeteer hosted on Google Cloud Run. This is publicly available for you try out. This article will cover all […]
A Google Cloud run hosted puppeteer with a graphQL interface and examples in Node and Apps Script. […]
3 secret managers working together. How to use GCP Secret Manager, Kubernetes secrets and Doppler together. […]
In Every Google Apps Script project on Github visualized I demonstrated an app that could be used to explore what every Apps Script developer who has shared their code is working on. One of the features […]
Another quick demo of data sharing Here’s a challenge that shares the data in a spreadsheet with node, set up end to end in less than 5 minutes. This example is almost exactly the same […]
This is part of the series on sharing data between Apps Script and Node on various backends, Apps script library with plugins for multiple backend cache platforms but the Drive API introduces a number of tricky […]
Another quick demo of data sharing There are many ways to accomplish this of course, but using Caching across multiple Apps Script and Node projects using a selection of back end platforms is pretty fast to […]
Quick demo of data sharing There are many ways to accomplish this of course, but using Caching across multiple Apps Script and Node projects using a selection of back end platforms is pretty fast to set […]
Motivation I’ve always been interested in ways to get multiple projects in Apps Script sharing data more easily and in a more standard way, independently of whatever platform is being used to host the data […]
In Every Google Apps Script project on Github visualized I demonstrated an app that could be used to explore what every Apps Script developer who has shared their code is working on. It can be used […]
Getting an FTP server running on Kubernetes is a little tricky. The FTP service uses multiple ports in its negotiation and you need to make sure that the conversation always connects to the same Kubernetes […]
Here’s how to set up a service account to access your firebase data base in admin mode. It’s quite disjointed in the docs, so here it is from start to finish. The console Just as […]
This is a part of the series of posts on Getting memcache up and running on Kubernetes which explained how to create your first cluster and Installing memcache with Kubernetes which installed some memcache instances on your cluster and Exposing […]
This is a part of the series of posts on Getting memcache up and running on Kubernetes which explained how to create your first cluster and Installing memcache with Kubernetes which installed some memcache instances […]
This is a step in Getting an API running in Kubernetes Building your demo app Before getting into the Kubernetes configuration, the first step is to create a demo App, which will run on Node/Express. […]
Now that Apps Script is opening up with a new CLI tool and API to allow you to use your own development tool change, there’s more reason than ever to start using NodeJs as part of your […]
I have a Node project that looks at Google Cloud storage and figures out the dimensions of images stored there. This is handy for an API to be able to serve up the right one […]
Here’s how to set up a service account to access your firebase data base in admin mode. It’s quite disjointed in the docs, so here it is from start to finish. The console Just as […]
When using the Express router, the usual sequence of events is to detect the route, examine the request, perform some action, then send back the response. It’s quite likely that the action to be performed […]
In the project I’m using for illustrating some of the capabilities of GCP, I need to make sense of a variety of documents, some very complex and some less so. The basic problem though is that there […]
If you want to write to sheets from a server side Node app, you can use a service account, but it’s a little tricky as you have to authorize that service account to be able […]
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 […]
This collection of articles deal with getting Graphql/Apollo server up and running on Node Rate limit handling A deep dive into rate-limiting with the Vimeo API
In Node focus explorer without excel I showed a d3.js app that could navigate a google site using tags and nodes. This was actually pretty generalized, so it was a minor modification to add blogger post navigation capability also. Again we’ll […]
Normally I’d want to use the Rest to Excel library to get data into Excel, but sometimes you have to resort to web scraping. My preferred route is to do something in scraperwiki, then use a rest query […]
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 […]
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 […]
For my Ephemeral Exchange project I wanted to containerize as much as possible, as I wan’t sure where I was eventually going to host it, and containerizing meant it would be easy to put pretty much anywhere. […]
Appengine When App engine first came out, you were stuck with PHP, Python or Java – none of which are my goto solutions. Then Go came along, but shortly afterwards it was announced that app […]
In Site data to sheets i showed how to get basic data from Analyzing site content with GAS into Excel and Google Sheets. To be able to use Excel tables to d3.js Force diagram, we are going to focus on […]
dependencyForce If you use a lot of libraries, sometimes things get a bit messy. You delete an old version to clean up and suddenly notice a few days later that things stop working because it’s […]
In Node focus on Blogger posts and Node focus explorer without excel I showed how you might browse sites by connected topic, rather than hierarchically. This used a D3.js force diagram as the navigation tool. I got to thinking […]
Up till now we’ve been considering a solution for Focus node explorer with d3.js that leverages massaging the data from Analyzing site content with GAS using the stuff we already had from d3.js. That solution also means that you can […]
A whole bunch of front end platform libraries that go together really well, but that are hard to grasp and get started with. Here’s a bunch of snippets to help show how all these things interact.. […]
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