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“Intended” according to whom? The firebase landing page makes a couple references to being scalable, but otherwise it doesn’t appear that using Firebase at a sm
by paulgb 4y ago
“Intended” according to whom? The firebase landing page makes a couple references to being scalable, but otherwise it doesn’t appear that using Firebase at a smaller scale is outside its intended scope at all.
- endisneigh 4y agoIntended accordingly to the technology, not marketing
- paulgb 4y agoWhat does “intended according to the technology” even mean? Just because software is built to scale up, doesn't mean that using it at a smaller scale goes against its intention. Marketing copy aside, it's not as if the technical docs discourage people from using it for non-scale use cases.
- endisneigh 4y agoIt’s a key value store. People complain about that it doesn’t have joins. It’s not a relational database. Just one example. It works best as a simple document store.
- paulgb 4y agoAh, gotcha, I see the connection now.
- duxup 4y agoA large amount of the tutorial videos out there make scalability without having to really think about it a big selling point, among others.