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(Firebase founder here) I used to work for an RTOS company, so I do understand where you are coming from. Real-time has different meanings in different contexts

(Firebase founder here) I used to work for an RTOS company, so I do understand where you are coming from. Real-time has different meanings in different contexts though. For an operating system it means hard guarantees on response times. Over a public network this is impossible, so it instead means that data is being pushed to clients as quickly as possible. The "soft real-time" phrasing might be accurate, but it is a distinction that is probably not helpful, as I think it would confuse more people than it would help, and people in the RTOS world know the difference anyways.

forgotAgain 14y ago
... this is impossible, so it instead means ... The lack of engineering rigor in that statement taken with the inherent security issues in re-broadcasting messages from a public client to other public clients would make me very leery of using your product.
- mrkurt 14y ago
  Is "engineering rigor of statements" always a big part of your criteria for using products?
  - alinajaf 14y ago
    It is when it comes from the founder of a company that sells itself as a 'scalable realtime backend for your web-app'.
  - forgotAgain 14y ago
    Yes, always. Isn't it for you?