Firebase with Sara Robinson and Vikrum Nijjar

In the thirteenth episode of this podcast, your hosts Francesc and Mark interview Sara Robinson and Vikrum Nijjar. Sara is now a Developer Advocate for Google Cloud Platform but was part of Firebase until recently, and Vikrum - Firebase employee #1 - works as a Site Reliance Engineer (SRE) for Firebase. Together they discuss the origins, features, and future of Firebase.

About Sara

Sara is a Developer Advocate on Google's Cloud Platform team, where she helps with developer relations through online content, outreach and events. She has a bachelor's degree in Business and International Studies from Brandeis University. When she's not programming, she can be found running, listening to country music, or finding the best ice cream in SF.

Follow Sara on Twitter @SRobTweets.

About Vikrum

Vikrum is a Bay Area native and SWE-SRE on the Firebase team. He started out with startups in the 90s with Speedera and has been with Firebase as employee #1 as they were going through YCombinator during the summer of 2011. He has a degree in CS from UC San Diego and enjoys a deep conspiracy with his boba tea.

Follow Vikrum on Twitter at @Vikrum5000.

Cool thing of the week

• CP100A: Google Cloud Platform Foundations courses.
  

Interview

• Firebase.
• Firebase Documentation.
• Warby Parker Pneumatic Tubes blog.
• Roll 20 and their case study.
• Netty.io.
• Firebase plugin for Unity blog and github.
• Firebase pricing doc.
• Parse moving on blog.
• Use Firebase and Google App Engine in an Android App tutorial.
• Firebase - Almost 1.5 years with Google blog.

Question of the week

• Google Cloud Console on Android and iOS.