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February Update: What's New in Data Connect in Firebase: Web Architecture & Implementation Guide
For years, choosing Firebase meant trading away relational SQL joins, strict foreign keys, and pgvector similarity search in favor of NoSQL document denormalization. Following the announcement of February Update: What's New in Data Connect by…
Understanding hybrid inference: the role of Firebase AI Logic: Web Architecture & Implementation Guide
Calling frontier multimodal models directly from a web or mobile client is a security minefield if you expose raw API keys or hardcode brittle system prompts in your frontend bundle. Following the announcement of Understanding hybrid inference: the…
What's new from Firebase at Cloud Next 2026: Web Architecture & Implementation Guide
For years, choosing Firebase meant trading away relational SQL joins, strict foreign keys, and pgvector similarity search in favor of NoSQL document denormalization. Following the announcement of What's new from Firebase at Cloud Next 2026 by Seba…
Grounding with Google Search in the Firebase AI Logic client SDKs: Web Architecture & Implementation Guide
If you have ever watched an AI coding agent hallucinate deprecated Firebase v8 syntax or deploy wide-open Firestore rules, you know that raw LLM prompts are not enough for production backends. Following the announcement of Grounding with Google…
What web frameworks does Firebase App Hosting support?: Web Architecture & Implementation Guide
Deploying server-rendered Next.js, Angular, or Astro apps alongside Firebase used to require stitching together custom Cloud Functions rewrites or managing separate Cloud Run containers by hand. Following the announcement of What web frameworks…
Extracting structured data from PDFs using Gemini 2.0 and Genkit in Firebase: Web Architecture & Implementation Guide
Building AI features in TypeScript or Go quickly turns into spaghetti when you try to bolt structured output validation, tool calling, and OpenTelemetry tracing onto raw model API calls. Following the announcement of Extracting structured data from…
Market Analysis: Regulatory Scrutiny of Prediction Markets and the Crisis of Information Governance
The recent investigation initiated by U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Curtis into prediction market platforms Kalshi and Polymarket regarding alleged election-related insider trading marks a critical inflection point for the digital asset…
I visited the UK's two best Christmas markets - I won't be back for a simple reason
The crowds ruined one of these markets Although I am a British citizen, I grew up on the other side of the world in New Zealand and for me, Christmas has always meant beaches, sand between my toes and steaks on the barbeque as my friends and family…
What happens when AI starts self-replicating?
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team recently published research suggesting that small AI models may be only months away from replicating and spreading across insecure devices, creating slow but hard-to-kill autonomous botnets. AI companies are no…
Europe's smallest airport costing just £9m to build with only three flights a day
Airports are often busy and chaotic One airport in Europe barely gets any visitors for most of the year, with just three flights a day. It's not only one of the smallest in Europe, but one of the smallest in the world. A person who visited the…
A new California museum is a beautiful and complicated ode to the Eameses
When the Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity released renderings of its new museum last week, it aimed to show how a museum campus could encapsulate the legacy of the 20th century's most famous design couple, Charles and Ray Eames. The…
Norway makes toilets great again
President Donald Trump called Norway a “shithouse country” after failing to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Norway's tourism officials decided to take that as a compliment. Visit Norway, the Scandinavian country's tourism agency, responded…
MAGA won the party. It just lost the math
In his recent breakdown of the Republican Party's internal mechanics, the Washington Examiner's chief political correspondent Byron York highlighted a stark operational reality: President Donald Trump holds a 95% approval rating among…
Does this new-generation electric BMW live up to the hype?
We've been hearing for at least five years about the Neue Klasse, the electric architecture that would underpin a new generation of BMWs, represent the future of the brand, rewrite what an electric car can be and much more besides. The first…
A Refugee City Plan Refuses to Treat Shelter as Enough
Six family plots sharing a courtyard is a modest starting point for an ambitious city plan. But I like that BIG's Refugee Cities begins at that scale. Developed with to.org, the proposal addresses a difficult mismatch: emergency settlements can…
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