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...

February 2026: A/B Testing on the web, Agent Skills, Cloud Shell in the Firebase console, and more

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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...

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Built for intelligence at scale

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is our fastest and most cost-efficient Gemini 3 series model yet.

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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...

Migrating to AGP 9.0 with an Agent Skill

I wrote my first Agent Skill to migrate Android projects to AGP 9.0.0

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👋🏼 GDE colleagues, my friend Carlos Azaustre has just published an Activity Reporting MCP Server to publish to Advocu www.npmjs.com/package/advo... #GDE

advocu-mcp-server

MCP Server for Advocu - Reporting Tool for GDEs. Latest version: 0.1.1, last published: 6 minutes ago. Start using advocu-mcp-server in your project by running `npm i advocu-mcp-server`. There are no ...

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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