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I really don't understand this assumption that all acquisitions are going to lead to disaster. I work in the Firebase team at Google and couldn't be happier that they've joined (it's what got me to return to Google). Google doubled down on the product and it's grown in ways that Firebase could never have achieved on its own. All while integrating into the broader ecosystem of Cloud.

Firebase then acquired DivShot and people cried doom. Yes DivShot was shut down--after completely rearchitecting Firebase's CLI and Hosting to have DivShot's open source web hosting framework with the features of both product lines. The CEO of DivShot now runs Firebase Hosting's product line and has massive resources at his disposal to push his (great) agenda of simple and speedy static web services.