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I'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 va

• tbrock 8y ago
  Heroku 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 ago
  Firebase 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.