Managing Instance Resources with Cloud Functions for Firebase (Firecasts)

In this episode of #Firecasts, a series on using cloud functions for Firebase, @codingdoug covers how to manage your instance resources to keep your function code from suddenly crashing due to lack of memory space.

[anwarkamal]

Firebase is the only team at Google which is doing great job
-> Best Documentation
-> Best Video tutorials
-> Best UI and easy to use
-> sdk is amazing

Keep it up the good work thank you so much guys

[danvilela]

Thanks for this series! It is awesome!! Learned a lot

[agung_laksana]

please update the playlist for this cloud function series, it seems more than 6 videos available. want to know the sequence and don't wanna miss one. great job firebase team ! :D

[sveinsoermo]

GOLD! Pls come up with a lot of practical examples on how to structure..and PLS MAKE MORE VIDEOS LIKE THIS DS!

[ayushgupta]

Can we use a single express-session instance between two cloud functions?

[MarkoMelko]

Hey, I have one minor question. Can I use cloud functions/firestore with my another Firebase projects, let say I have a react web app on first project (1) (simply site) and another react web app on project (2). Idea is to keep (1) as simply as possible serving simply data that user build up with react app (2). Later I am going to build native app to project (2) if beta testings go well on browser side app :) Simply, I need to get data from project (2) to project (1), is that possible?

[theera-thekunlimited]

Last night I was thinking about this then this video came out what a nice day.

[adarsh_hatwar]

This is better than google documentation anyday :)

[rubenheymans]

Can you show us some code examples on how to do all this?

[Fanaro]

I think this video hasn't been listed in correct order in the "Understanding Cloud Functions for Firebase" playlist.

[marciodorimar]

Great Doug! Are you ok?

What are the conditions for automatic scale of a function? Is the number of invocations of the function per minute? Or the number of requests waiting in queue? Anyway ... What does a function scales in Cloud Functions?

Sorry my bad english ;)

[ilijanl]

Nice video but since you mentioning using global scope for using admin sdk I wonder how you would handle this scenario: Imagine you exporting 2 functions from index.js, one using admin sdk other not. This means when you call the function which doesn't use admin sdk, it will be initialised anyway which will worst cold start time. How would you handle this kind of dependencies per function whenever we only use one file to define all functions?

[DenisTRUFFAUT]

Avoid exhausting resources to avoid a cold start penalty is a good thing to keep in mind.

[SuhendroKarmin]

Is that mean global variable will be shared among function calls?