Fresh from Google I/O (https://events.google.com/io/), Mark (https://twitter.com/Neurotic) and Francesc (https://twitter.com/francesc)

are joined by the co-founders of Firebase (https://firebase.google.com/), James Tamplin (https://twitter.com/JamesTamplin) and

Andrew Lee (https://twitter.com/startupandrew) to let us in on all the new and awesome things that were announced!

About James Tamplin

James Tamplin (https://twitter.com/JamesTamplin) 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 (https://twitter.com/startupandrew) 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 (https://blog.google/topics/google-cloud/google-cloud-offer-tpus-machine-learning/) product (https://cloud.google.com/tpu/) research (https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.04760)

* Introducing Google Cloud IoT Core: for securely connecting and managing IoT devices at scale announcement (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/05/introducing-Google-Cloud-IoT-Core-for-securely-connecting-and-managing-IoT-devices-at-scale.html) product (https://cloud.google.com/iot-core/)

Interview

* Firebase (https://firebase.google.com/)

* What’s new from Firebase at Google I/O 2017 blog (https://firebase.googleblog.com/2017/05/whats-new-from-firebase-at-google-io.html)

* Previous episodes on Firebase

* Episode #29 (https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-29-the-new-firebase-with-abe-haskins-and-doug-stevenson/)

* Episode #13 (https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-13-firebase-with-sara-and-vikrum/)

* Firebase Phone Authentication web (https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth/web/phone-auth) android (https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth/android/phone-auth) ios (https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth/ios/phone-auth)

* Firebase Hosting and Cloud Functions docs (https://firebase.google.com/docs/hosting/functions)

* Build Modern Apps with Firebase and Google Cloud Platform (Google I/O ‘17) youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIe0Fn9OtnY)

* Open sourcing the Firebase SDKs announcement (https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/05/open-sourcing-firebase-sdks.html) github (https://github.com/firebase/)

* Firebase performance monitoring site (https://firebase.google.com/products/performance/) docs (https://firebase.google.com/docs/perf-mon/)

* Firebase SDKs for Unity (https://firebase.google.com/docs/unity/setup) and C++ (https://firebase.google.com/docs/cpp/setup)

* Firebase Test Lab for Games docs (https://firebase.google.com/docs/test-lab/game-loop)

* Google Analytics for Firebase docs (https://firebase.google.com/docs/analytics/)

* Android Instance Apps site (https://developer.android.com/topic/instant-apps/index.html)

* Try Google BigQuery today: Now with 10GB of free storage announcement (https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2017/05/try-google-bigquery-today-now-with-10gb-of-free-storage)

* Firebase Analytics Stream and Debug View announcement (https://firebase.googleblog.com/2017/03/realtime-analytics-for-everyone.html) stream (https://support.google.com/firebase/answer/7229836?hl=en) debug (https://firebase.google.com/docs/analytics/debugview)

* Firebase at Google I/O 2017 presentations (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl-K7zZEsYLma7gxYxtEwO1rsAPn7wkV_)

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Question of the week

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