Staff engineer at an Oslo media company, leading the real-time comments and reactions platform built on Firestore and Cloud Functions. Scaled the system from 10 K to 2 M concurrent users without re-architecting the data model.
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A practical, code-first guide to firestore real-time updates in Flutter. Real patterns, common pitfalls, and a checklist you can apply to production Flutter apps.
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