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by ceeplusplus 1463 days ago
It suffers from trying to go upmarket with something that was never meant for ultra-serious, large, production apps. Look at the original Wired article [1]: every story of the founders' pitching to customers is about being able to quickly zero-to-one a concept. It seems great for internal apps, quick prototypes, and simple things and that's about it.
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tlarkworthy 1463 days ago
Firestore has better SLO than Confluent's own managed Kafka offering (5 nines [1] vs 4 nines [2]).

If you use it as a system component and not a do everything backend it is the most production ready clientside technologies on the planet.

[1] https://docs.confluent.io/cloud/current/clusters/cluster-typ...

[2] https://cloud.google.com/firestore/sla

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danielvaughn 1463 days ago
Yep. And what’s worse is that Firestore is notoriously difficult to migrate away from (at least from what I’ve heard, haven’t yet tried it myself). So if you take the prototype and turn it into an mvp, you’re kinda stuck with it.

If the goal is to create a prototyping DB, ideally there’d be some nice off ramping or migration tools for when the app needs to become production ready.

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