I’ve written before about a project in which I’m using Firebase Authentication in combination with Google Cloud Endpoints and a gRPC service running on Cloud Run: Firebase Authentication, Cloud Endpoints and gRPC (1of2) Firebase Authentication, Cloud Endpoints and gRPC (2of2) This works well with one caveat, the ID tokens (JWTs) minted by Firebase Authentication have a 3600 second (one hour) lifetime. The user flow in my app is that whenever the user invokes the app’s CLI:

For… reasons, I wanted to pre-filter gRPC requests to check for authorization. Authorization is implemented as a ‘micro-service’ and I wanted the authorization server to run in the same process as the gRPC client. TL;DR: Shiju’s “Writing gRPC Interceptors in Go” is great This Stack overflow answer ostensibly for writing unit tests for gRPC got me an in-process server What follows stands on these folks' shoulders… A key motivator for me to write blog posts is that helps me ensure that I understand things.

It’s been almost a month since my last post. I’ve been occupied learning Stripe and integrating it into an application that I’m developing. The app benefits from a billing mechanism for prospective customers and, as far as I can tell, Stripe is the solution. I’d be interested in hearing perspectives on alternatives. As with any platform, there’s good and bad and I’ll summarize my perspective on Stripe here. It’s been some time since I developed in JavaScript and this lack of familiarity has meant that the solution took longer than I wanted to develop.