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I've been using PHP/SQL professionally for about 3 years with a custom framework at my workplace, and about 10 years as a hobbyist. Today I learned there was a

by leke 4y ago

I've been using PHP/SQL professionally for about 3 years with a custom framework at my workplace, and about 10 years as a hobbyist. Today I learned there was a new company pretty much doing the SAAS we are doing, but using Firebase. I don't have that much experience with Firebase, but it got me wondering if the work we do to get data to and from the database with PHP is much more difficult than with a document like store that is used with Firebase. Do you think development platforms like Firebase have a advantages of development speed over our more traditional stack?

tomschwiha 4y ago
I think for people in need to get started quickly Firebase is perfectly suited to start without much hassle. For me personally I can get my personal PHP stack (Percona mysql server, nginx, php8.1-fpm) running on a fresh debian server within 10 minutes. However I don't have the experience (yet) what I need to change in my setup to scale up to very many concurrent users. So far I assume my setup should be able to handle few hundreds connections in the same second.