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Seriously though, the only problem firebase solves is the question "what infrastructure decision can I make right now that I will regret as soon as possible?"
by weego 8y ago
Seriously though, the only problem firebase solves is the question "what infrastructure decision can I make right now that I will regret as soon as possible?"
I'm being facetious but then I feel like this whole thing is a joke, so it's kind of fitting.
- meesterdude 8y agoI've known a lot of people get started quickly with firebase and then proceed to have to yank it out for the nonsense they run into. I also question the real value/merit of firebase.
- tbrock 8y agoHeroku did this properly imho. They are a perfect example of how one can provide hosting that actually is helpful and sophisticated where it needs to be but gets out of your way when you don’t need to care (for 99% of applications that don’t need to scale beyond a certain point). The people want postgres, give them Postgres.
- erokar 8y agoFirebase excels for real time/multiuser/shared data scenarios. It gives you things out of the box that are not trivial to implement from the ground up. You can also use something like Firestore if your backend is primarily a place to store data. Combined with e.g. Next.js you can develop quite quickly with it.
- sergiotapia 8y agoI actually noped out of a contract when the client wanted to bet his entire infrastructure on firebase. Data, documents, authentication etc. Now I'm not familiar with Firebase, but I am familiar enough to know when to bow out. Their company in for a wild ride.