| I've been thinking about implementing Firebase as part of Polar: https://getpolarized.io/ The idea is that you update your documents (PDF, HTML, etc) into Polar, tag them, and then we sync them to the cloud. Then when you go to another machine like work or home your documents are always synchronized. At first I fell in love with Firebase and was very very excited to start implementing it. They've spent a ton of time working on the initial implementation experience. Their Firebase Auth support was amazingly simple to setup. Same with Firebase hosting. It's top notch. You can be up and running with a CDN hosting with SSL in like 2 minutes and the firebase tools are exceptional. Cloud Firestore seems really interesting and easy to setup. It's basically designed for 'apps'. IE user-facing apps and works pretty well if all the data is private to the user. I do struggle with these issues of reliability though. At Datastreamer (http://www.datastreamer.io/) we use Hetzner and have about a half petabyte stored there. It's a blog content search engine which we license to other startups so high availability is critical. Their infra is amazingly reliable. Very very happy here. The problem of course is that you then have to manage your own software stack which of course requires extra effort on your part. |