At its Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco today, Google is announcing updates to its Firebase portfolio of mobile-oriented cloud services.

Google Cloud Functions for Firebase, now available in a beta release, allows developers to run back-end JavaScript code that responds to events triggered by Firebase features and HTTPS requests.

Second half of Algolia Full Text Search with Angular 4 and Firebase Cloud Functions. In this video we create a cloud function to keep a searchable index updated with the realtime database.

Build a Firebase Cloud Function that detects new image uploads and creates multiple thumbnails on the fly using Sharp and Cloud Storage.

Firebase is a Google-backed database optimized for synchronizing data to the cloud. It's a key player in the rush for distributed databases.

The new Cloud Functions for Firebase SDK can listen to events from Firebase Analytics, its real-time database, authentication and storage service and kick off Cloud Functions based on them.