The Oracle ACE Community is built on something simple but powerful: experts sharing what they know, experimenting with new technology, and helping others learn from their experience.

One of the ways we encourage that knowledge sharing is through Content Bounties.

If you haven’t come across a Content Bounty before, it’s a community challenge that invites Oracle ACEs to explore a particular technology or topic and create original content about it. A bounty might encourage participants to write a technical article, share their experience on social media, build a demo application, or take a new Oracle technology for a spin and tell the wider Oracle community what they learned.

There is a competitive element, with winning contributions selected at the end of the bounty, but the bigger goal is collaboration. Content Bounties give ACEs an opportunity to work more closely with Oracle product teams, get hands-on with new technologies, and turn that experience into useful content for tech experts everywhere.

Our latest bounty focused on Oracle Backend with Firebase APIs — and the response from the ACE Community was fantastic.

28 submissions from the Oracle ACE Community

For this Content Bounty, we invited Oracle ACEs to explore and help introduce Oracle Backend with Firebase APIs, a free toolkit for mobile and web developers.

Oracle Backend with Firebase APIs gives developers a way to build mobile and web applications on Oracle AI Database using open source SDKs for iOS, Android, Flutter, and Web (JavaScript).

Using the SDKs, developers can add capabilities including authentication, file and object storage, data persistence, AI vector search, and App Trust to their applications. The toolkit is available as a free feature of Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS).

The challenge for our ACEs was deliberately open-ended: learn about the toolkit and publish something that would help other developers discover and understand it. We also offered bonus points for going further, building an application, and sharing that hands-on experience.

The community responded with 28 submissions, ranging from introductions and technical deep dives to hands-on application builds.

A huge thank you to every Oracle ACE who participated. Choosing the winners from so many contributions was not easy.

🥇 First Place: Morad Alshammari

Building a Quality Management App on Oracle AI Database with Oracle Backend with Firebase APIs

Morad took the challenge beyond an introduction to the technology and built a proof-of-concept Quality Management application.

The article demonstrates the toolkit in the context of a real application, making it a particularly useful resource for developers who want to understand what building with Oracle Backend with Firebase APIs actually looks like.

Read Morad’s winning article:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/building-quality-management-app-oracle-ai-database-apis-alshammari-6y5nf/

Congratulations, Morad!

🥈 Second Place: Malek Mohammed Aledresi

Oracle Backend with Firebase (Fusabase): The Enterprise Firebase Alternative

Malek provided a detailed exploration of the toolkit and the developer experience it enables on Oracle technology.

His contribution stood out for the time and effort invested in reviewing the toolkit and explaining it for developers interested in this new approach to building applications on Oracle AI Database.

Read Malek’s winning article:
https://malek-al-edresi.com/en/blog/oracle-backend-with-firebase-apis-fusabase/

Congratulations, Malek!

🥉 Joint Third Place: Hidehiko Asahi and Vito Van Hecke

We had two excellent contributions recognized in third place.

Hidehiko Asahi

I Built an App on Oracle Backend with Firebase APIs, Then Looked at It as a DBA

Hidehiko approached the bounty from a particularly interesting angle: first building with the toolkit, and then examining the experience through the eyes of a database administrator.

The result is a thoughtful and detailed analysis that connects the developer experience with the underlying Oracle Database perspective.

Read Hidehiko’s winning article:
https://dev.to/asahide/i-built-an-app-on-oracle-backend-with-firebase-apis-then-looked-at-it-as-a-dba-230a

Congratulations, Hidehiko!

Vito Van Hecke

Oracle Backend with Firebase APIs, Part 1: What It Is and Setting It Up on Oracle AI Database 26ai

Vito created a clear, hands-on introduction to Oracle Backend with Firebase APIs, taking readers through what the toolkit is and how to get started with it.

It’s also the first part of a series, with Vito continuing his exploration into authentication, database functionality, and storage.

Read Vito’s winning article:
https://blog.vvanhecke.be/en/blog/oracle-backend-firebase-apis-setup/

Congratulations, Vito!

More than a competition

While we’re delighted to celebrate our winners, Content Bounties aren’t only about who finishes first.

The 28 submissions to this bounty represent 28 contributions to the wider Oracle developer ecosystem: developers sharing their discoveries, explaining concepts in their own words, testing ideas, and helping others get started.

They also demonstrate what makes the Oracle ACE Program special. ACEs don’t simply use Oracle technologies; they share their expertise with others and create resources that help the whole community learn.

Thank you again to every Oracle ACE who participated in the Oracle Backend with Firebase APIs Content Bounty, and congratulations to Morad, Malek, Vito, and Hidehiko on their winning contributions.

Want to explore Oracle Backend with Firebase APIs?

Whether you’re an Oracle ACE or you’re simply curious about building mobile and web applications on Oracle AI Database, you can explore Oracle Backend with Firebase APIs yourself.

And keep an eye on the Oracle ACE Community for more ACE Activities.