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Reason #1 to use Firebase (or any other reliable BAAS): it is the next logical step of cloud computing. If you've been around long enough, you probably had to
by bikamonki 10y ago
Reason #1 to use Firebase (or any other reliable BAAS): it is the next logical step of cloud computing.
If you've been around long enough, you probably had to convince the IT manager of one of your corp clients that it was a better idea to host the company's website on a hosting provider's server rather than in-house. Didn't you?
The argument of shouldn't trust your data to a BAAS provider is just silly: where's your data when you rent a VPS and mount your own back-end?
Maybe Firebase was not the right choice for this particular product, but don't trash it for it.
For me, the only missing feature is full-text search, yet the workaround is not as painful.
- makomk 10y agoVPSes are a commodity: if your provider turns out to be crap or puts up prices, you can just switch to another provider. Services like Firebase are not; switching requires rewriting your application. This makes them more attractive for the company selling them but a bigger risk for their customers.
- bikamonki 10y agoGive it a couple of years and BAAS will be a commodity...
- nameless912 10y agoIn an ideal world, VPSes are a commodity. But, as someone who's currently trying to evaluate switching part of our backend from OpenStack and DigitalOcean to AWS, it's not anywhere near as simple as it could be. Everyone is still platform locked to a greater or lesser degree, and those platform-specific tweaks and quirks oftentimes don't come up til you actually start trying to run a transition.