We'll be taking a look front and backend flows across the course of these next 5 Meetups, starting with:

Kubernetes:
The orchestrator behind Google's Container Engine. In this talk, we'll discuss how you can leverage the amazing power of containers for enterprise resiliency on a shoestring

Firebase:
In this talk we'll present and overview of real-time database and storage including:

# Advantages and disadvantages of the real-time nature of Firebase database
# How NoSQL style compares to SQL databases
# Efficiency of data vs data duplication
# Authentication - email & password / Facebook / Google
# User management within the Firebase console - reset passwords, add/delete users
# How security is built in to the database
# Firebase storage - what it is and how to use it efficiently
# Functions - brief overview of what they do, to link to the next talk