Marvin CAI

Has been a while haven't write any blog, I am just trying to pick it up a bit. Recently, played around TCP a bit, even simpler than WebSocket(which I tried before) just write up a note the simple playground.

I was pretty amazed by one of the local news media HKET, as they was able to push a notification to my mobile phone with certain news update occasionally.

Serverless is just similar to hosting an application and deploy it somewhere with endpoints, since serverless gives us freedom to deploy functions / endpoints one by one, the release circle for each endpoint is comparatively shorter.

Again back to Flutter for mobile development, I realise the emulator I setup in previous article has default size 320x480, which is too small and easy to lost motivation on mobile development. I need a better way to have larger resolution for development emulator!

# What is Firebase functions ?

Cloud Functions for Firebase let you automatically run backend code in response to events triggered by Firebase features and HTTPS requests. Your code is stored in Google's cloud and runs in a managed environment. There's no need to manage and scale your own servers.

A service worker is a script that your browser runs in the background, separate from a web page, opening the door to features that don't need a web page or user interaction.