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So in how many years is Google going to shut down Firebase? It was an acquisition and they don't tend to keep those running for long.
I've played with Firebase but have been exploring GraphQL services recently. Initially http://www.graph.cool/ and https://scaphold.io/ Graph.cool just released their development framework so I may investigate. I realise Firebase and GraphQL are very different beasts but I think they serve the same market. It would be good to see Firebase at some point offer a GraphQL interface but the data structures are very differe…
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Have you heard of RetroAnalytics? It's a predictive analytics platform that offers similar features but without the need to be locked into Firebase. https://retroanalytics.io Disclaimer - I'm the founder :)
What's the pricing model?
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This knee-jerk-ism is tiresome. There are plenty of products that Google has retired, and plenty of products that Google has continued to invest in. Just like any other big corporation. (acquisition still running, top of my head: Google Docs, Android, YouTube, DoubleClick)
Well it’s so common Wikipedia has a dedicated category for them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Discontinued_Google_a...
Im not disputing that Google does this, but ever since Google Reader was stopped this has become a stock comment on basically every HN discussion on Google products (other than search & ads) and has long ceased to have any value at all, and seems to be just accepted as some gospel without any evidence that this is a bigger problem with Google than the other tech giants.
So in how many years is Google going to shut down Firebase? It was an acquisition and they don't tend to keep those running for long.
It fits in well to the overall Google Cloud Computing offering and has few real competitors in AWS/Azure.
I say this as someone using AWS daily but Firebase for side projects.
So in how many years is Google going to shut down Firebase? It was an acquisition and they don't tend to keep those running for long.
To me it seems like Firebase essentially supports the cancer of the (app/software) industry: Creating/buying an app, making it popular and drawing every last penny out of it while pissing off the core users who helped to make it popular and then letting it die. Rinse and repeat. It helps you piss off the core/current users a little less to draw out the process as much as possible and make more profits, but the result…
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Well it’s so common Wikipedia has a dedicated category for them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Discontinued_Google_a...
And is it anymore than other big corporation? That pages lists 24 products, which doesn't seem that much to me. There have been plenty of stories about retired products at FB, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, etc. Im not disputing that Google does this, but ever since Google Reader was stopped this has become a stock comment on basically every HN discussion on Google products (other than search & ads) and has long ceased to…
I don't think hk__2 is promoting another big corporation.
I'm currently researching open source solutions such as Parse.
I've played with Firebase but have been exploring GraphQL services recently. Initially http://www.graph.cool/ and https://scaphold.io/ Graph.cool just released their development framework so I may investigate. I realise Firebase and GraphQL are very different beasts but I think they serve the same market. It would be good to see Firebase at some point offer a GraphQL interface but the data structures are very differe…
Graph.cool is rad. We used it while migrating to Google Cloud, just so we could be off of Scaphold.