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Introducing Cloud Functions for Firebase

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Re: Introducing Cloud Functions for Firebase

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Post by mbrock »

metaphyze wrote: post #37
keithwinstein wrote: post #21

This looks like a worthy competitor to AWS Lambda, but I'm disappointed by the unalterable limit of 400 concurrent invocations of a function. (The "Quotas" page says "Max concurrent functions" is 400, with "Can be increased" as "No." https://cloud.google.com/functions/quotas ) One of the cool things about AWS Lambda is that you can use it as a short-term supercomputer with thousands of threads. We (Stanford/UCSD ExCa…

Another disappointing limitation is being restricted to Node.js. AWS Lambda lets you write your code in Node.js, Python, Java, or C#. This is particularly useful for tuning your Lambdas based on their expected usage. If you have a Lambda that is being constantly invoked, it might be better to write it in Java. It has a longer start up time but has better performance after the initial startup. However, if your Lambda…

For the record, you can also write Lambda programs in C, Haskell, Rust, Ocaml, Go, or basically whatever compiled language you want, as long as you can manage to produce a binary whose dynamically linked library paths are compatible with Amazon Linux, which is quite easily done either by building on EC2 or using a Docker image with the Amazon Linux file system --- or building static binaries.

Re: Introducing Cloud Functions for Firebase

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Post by gfosco »

chuinard wrote: post #2

As a 2+ year user of Firebase, this is long overdue. I built my own cloud function infrastructure using their Java SDK and Digital Ocean and I couldn't have built my app (ProBooks.com) without it. It's good to see Cloud Functions moving from Alpha to Beta!

Yeah, I remember when Parse offered these cloud functions back in 2012... It was a game-changer for "Backend-as-a-Service."

Re: Introducing Cloud Functions for Firebase

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Post by tomh- »

brendanlim wrote: post #3

(Cloud Functions for Firebase PM here) We’ve been developing this product for years, and we’ve had it in private alpha testing for well over a year, so we’re incredibly excited to finally take the wrappings off and let all of you try it. Firebase has always focused on empowering you all to build extraordinary experiences for your users, without needing to worry about building common infrastructure. While we’ve made b…

Any estimation when, if at all, European individuals can use the paid version of Firebase (Functions)?

Re: Introducing Cloud Functions for Firebase

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Post by ealexhudson »

dorianm wrote: post #60
phpencil wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And just to clarify, Cloud Functions for Firebase is covered under the Firebase free support, who you can reach here: https://firebase.google.com/support/contact/troubleshooting/

"You have 5 questions remaining" Limit is 5 per year, that's brutal

The support comes from a genii. Make sure not to ask "Is the limit really 5?" with your first question.

Re: Introducing Cloud Functions for Firebase

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Post by akanet »

brendanlim wrote: post #3

(Cloud Functions for Firebase PM here) We’ve been developing this product for years, and we’ve had it in private alpha testing for well over a year, so we’re incredibly excited to finally take the wrappings off and let all of you try it. Firebase has always focused on empowering you all to build extraordinary experiences for your users, without needing to worry about building common infrastructure. While we’ve made b…

I can't tell from the docs - are server functions able to to modify or reject writes to refs in the realtime DB before they happen?

Re: Introducing Cloud Functions for Firebase

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Post by phpencil »

dorianm wrote: post #60
phpencil wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And just to clarify, Cloud Functions for Firebase is covered under the Firebase free support, who you can reach here: https://firebase.google.com/support/contact/troubleshooting/

"You have 5 questions remaining" Limit is 5 per year, that's brutal

5 troubleshooting, unlimited bugs and feature requests -> https://firebase.google.com/support/contact/bugs-features/ there. We're on Stack Overflow/the firebase-talk google group/slack etc. as well for general questions of course!

Re: Introducing Cloud Functions for Firebase

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Post by elastic_church »

gfosco wrote: post #73
chuinard wrote: post #2

As a 2+ year user of Firebase, this is long overdue. I built my own cloud function infrastructure using their Java SDK and Digital Ocean and I couldn't have built my app (ProBooks.com) without it. It's good to see Cloud Functions moving from Alpha to Beta!

Yeah, I remember when Parse offered these cloud functions back in 2012... It was a game-changer for "Backend-as-a-Service."

Wait till Google axes Firebase with no warning

How many times can devs be burned, are we all masochists or just not have any memory of the last project that offered all this

Re: Introducing Cloud Functions for Firebase

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Post by rutierut »

subpixel wrote: post #48

This was a long time coming, so congrats first. I also recently read this from an experienced Firebase developer: https://medium.freecodecamp.com/firebase-the-great-the-meh-a... Interestingly, he lists several things that he things Firebase needs in order to be awesome, and server-functions is last on the list: > 1. Real querying capabilities. Search, joins, the whole enchilada. > 2. Some sort of references likes Mon…

Nr. 3 would be the end for me, I still don't get why they haven't implemented this, it exist for Ios and Android, why not web!!
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