If you’re just starting out on Google Cloud for the first time, it’s easy to breeze through the concept of service accounts. Some service accounts, like the App Engine or Compute Engine default service accounts, are even created for you as soon as you turn those features on. After that…

“You become what you give your attention to…If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will.” — Epictetus, O.G. Greek Philosopher You’re familiar with this pattern: You’ve got something you need to work on, an important assignment for work or school. …

So, you want to get started building out your infrastructure on Google Cloud. You’ve read all about how cloud is the future and you’re ready to make moves. But building out on cloud can seem overwhelming. Theoretically, you could spin up a gargantuan server that could wind up costing thousands…

I like simple things. Vue.js is a pretty simple Javascript framework. And Firebase Authentication is a pretty simple way of adding authentication to a web app. So, in the spirit of simplicity, let’s put these two simple things together using a very simple example. Wait, what are we doing? When you create a new Vue…