How to authenticate users on your Firebase app and access google APIs on their behalf with OAuth 2 access tokens Firebase Auth is pretty convenient as it allows you to effortlessly authenticate users with other identity providers such as Google. In the Firebase docs, there is even an example showing you how to add additional scopes and retrieve an access_token to access various Google APIs. If you’re trying to build…

A step by step guide on how to process multiple items efficiently — Azure Functions, a service allowing to run serverless code, come in many forms: they can be HTTP triggered — you can call them directly to execute some code; blob-triggered — they run when a new blob is uploaded to storage, or, among other things, queue-triggered, which is what we are…

A curated list of my go-to tools & libraries — I’ve had to develop a few websites recently, which involved designing the UI. I’m not a professional UI designer, and I only learned about UI design from my good friend — the internet. …

A fresh eyes’ perspective on what it takes to be successful at a top tech company — One year ago, I started working as a Software Engineer at Microsoft — which is pretty much my dream job. I discovered so many new things, and enjoyed myself so much, that time flew by and I can’t believe it’s already been a whole year. …

What are Azure functions? Functions allow to run serverless code, code that you run only when you need it and that doesn’t need a whole infrastructure to live in. You can decide that a function is triggered when hitting an HTTP endpoint, or when new files are added into a blob storage for instance…

You want to start building chatbots but get lost in documentation, and don’t really know what to look for nor where to start? Well, look no further: this tutorial will teach you how to build a bot end-to-end, using Microsoft’s Bot Framework v4 (node.js) and QnA Maker. Read through this…