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Whenever I hear serverless, I think backend as a service remarketed. A few years ago they were tried and never fully caught on largely because people saw the i
by throwaway13337 9y ago
Whenever I hear serverless, I think backend as a service remarketed.
A few years ago they were tried and never fully caught on largely because people saw the inherent vulnerability of betting your entire backend on a company you don't control.
It has that old problem of being beholden to a single vendor.
- zeptomu 9y agoYeah it's a new word for an old thing - I think "hosted" is often a better word.
- sorenbs 9y agoThanks for the comment throwaway! Our view is that the main reason Parse and Firebase didn't manage to gain mainstream adoption is that they were too limited. At the time, limitations imposed by available infrastructure forced them to to adopt a nosql model that made it very hard to implement advanced business logic. We have come a long way since then, but unfortunately Firebase is still stuck with the same fundamental data structure. Here are some good resources on this topic: https://www.graph.cool/docs/tutorials/graphql-vs-firebase-chi6oozus1/ https://www.graph.cool/docs/tutorials/graphql-vs-firebase-ch... https://medium.freecodecamp.com/firebase-the-great-the-meh-and-the-ugly-a07252fbcf15 https://medium.freecodecamp.com/firebase-the-great-the-meh-a...