Surprised this doesn't have more upvotes, without phone number registration Beeper Mini isn't actually back.

The tutorial talks about how to do a local webserver where you manually navigate to the IP address. How is this being served over the internet?

yes, I have a static IP and port forwarded. It IP can be mapped to website (dns name) via namecheap and godaddy like services. This is enough to put it on internet

In this setup I added a nginx in between (doesn't enable cache yet) for load balancing.

DNS and port forwarding.

And probably buying a static IP from your ISP.

Just DDNS

Not all home ISPs give you an entire IPv4 address. Some have fewer IPs than subscribers and thus use a NAT. Sometimes a very restrictive one.

In Europe, most ISPs use carrier graden NAT nowadays

You can get around the issues of CG-NAT by setting up a reverse tunnel to an external server you control.

nginx reverse proxy

Wow. This is so eye opening.

Totally, I imagine they incentivize / encourage bad restaurants to appear as ghost kitchen brands on their platform, and to algorithmically inflate reviews so that most averages appear to be over 4.0.

Absolutely, my wife and I cook most of our meals. The bad experience I had with DoorDash earlier today was exacerbated by the fact that we're both at home recovering (suffering) from COVID at the moment and so using their service was more out of necessity than anything else and they really fell short.

Thank you. What drivel, my god.

Do you know anyone who works at Google (or have a friend of a friend)? Employees have an internal tool called help my friend to assist with situations like this.

I am reaching out to my friends to find out if they know any one at google.

former googler, I was never able to actually get my friend help through either this tool or trying to find help on various mailing lists. I didn't and probably should have tried memegen.

MI3 undoubtedly the best - the artwork, the music, the puzzles. I revisited it a few years ago and it was still a joy to play.

I'm using Cloud Functions as well - where did you move them to? Lambda?

luckily we started migrating before the announcement

i'd recommend checking serverless framework (serverless.com) or openfaas (openfaas.com)

best thing you can do is not get involved with provider-specific APIs: use Docker/Kubernetes for building and executing your code, Postgres-compatible database (Hasura if you want Firebase experience) and S3 for object storage, send e-mails using SMTP

again, don't use provider-specific API's

Wanted to add another option to ushakov's comment: KNative (which is actually what CloudRun is built on).

If you run k8s clusters anywhere, OpenFaaS and KNative are both solid options. OpenFaaS is seems better suited for short running, less compute intensive things. Whereas KNative is a great fit for API's.. it just removed a bunch of the complexity around deployment (like writing a helm chart, configuring an HPA, etc).

> Wanted to add another option to ushakov's comment: KNative (which is actually what CloudRun is built on).

And GCF v2 is running on KNative on Cloud Run... turtles all the way down.

Firebase App Distribution can work for this, except a) you would need to manually invite all 50 testers via their emails and b) updates aren't installed automatically - the user must download the update themselves (either via an email notification link which takes them to the App Tester web UI, or they can download the App Tester app itself).

The first part probably isn't an issue, but depending on how non-technical your users are, getting them to successfully install it and then manually retrieve updates may be a bumpy ride (I'm thinking back to what I read about the Iowa Caucus disaster).