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Harnessing the Combined Power of Gutenberg & Firebase to Build a Realtime Status Page

30 minute intermediate seminar

Description/Proposal

Modern infrastructure technologies like serverless computing and realtime databases offer a huge potential for new and improved online user experiences.

In this session, we'll go through a practical use case to find out how we can harness their power in the context of WordPress.

We'll build a Gutenberg block that shows status updates, to be incorporated into a status page. We'll use serverless computing to allow adding status updates via a Slack command, and we'll use a realtime database so that all visitors receive these updates in realtime without any impact on our WordPress server.