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by hiou 3565 days ago
How's firebase going these days?

Edit: I should add Firebase could have(and should have) been the next PHP/Access. Could have solved almost every SMB business custom software need in a way that a business could go from front-end to front-end and never get locked into another 1,000 crud app for XYZ vertical. Could have wiped it all out. Firebase could have become the data store of the internet. Then Google showed up....
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_pius 3565 days ago
How's firebase going these days?

Given that Firebase seems to have become the foundation of Google's mobile app development offering I'm guessing ... pretty well?

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ben_jones 3565 days ago
Firebase uses a non-relational database correct? Shouldn't they then run into issues with problems that do not lend well to non-relational databases? I don't see how Firebase could have been anywhere near as pervasive as PHP.
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