Tutorial
Moving from Next.js API Routes to Cloud Functions: A Migration Checklist
The step-by-step playbook we followed to lift every /api route out of the frontend: inventory, rewrites, cold starts, secrets, and rollback.
8/13/20262 min
Security
Firebase Security Rules with Custom Claims: One Project, Four Access Levels
Family, kids, dashboard, public — four audiences, one Firebase project. Custom claims plus per-document rules turned a permissions nightmare into something testable.
8/12/20262 min
Technology
One API Gateway, Seven Apps: Why We Consolidated All Backend Routes
Instead of seven Next.js API route bundles, we moved every backend endpoint into a single Cloud Function. Here's the architecture, the tradeoffs, and the numbers.
8/10/20262 min