You've heard of the Elf on the Shelf, but did you hear that Firebase now has Cloud Shell?
I cover this and more updates in the Firebase Release Notes February 2026 video 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiRt...
Big news for fast and cost-efficient AI! Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is here:
⚡️ 2.5X faster Time to First Token
📉 $0.25 per 1M input tokens
🧠 Thinking levels for control over reasoning
blog.google/innovation-a...
3 tips to build resilience into your GenAI application:
⏳ Use exponential backoff for API calls, ideally directly in the SDK
🔌 Apply a circuit breaker during instability to prevent cascading failures
🖼️ Use "skeleton components" for loading to improve perceived performance
Here's my naive attempt at writing an Agent Skill to accomplish the task I had at hand (migrate to AGP 9.0)
Feedback and suggestions on what I could have done better are more than welcome! :)
thatfire.dev/blog/my-firs...
👋🏼 GDE colleagues, my friend Carlos Azaustre has just published an Activity Reporting MCP Server to publish to Advocu
www.npmjs.com/package/advo...
#GDE
The Firebase documentation now contains a full list of which API key permissions it requires for each product. This is really handy if you want to lock down your API keys to your specific project needs.
firebase.google.com/...
Looking for Google Firebase experts? I've created a Starter Pack for you of Google Developer Experts in Firebase: go.bsky.app/Qu33H45
#Firebase #GDE
In case you are looking for folks working on Android at Google, here is your starter pack
go.bsky.app/Qo41HVG