[alanlbird]

I'm a bit surprised at the negativity here. I have used Firebase for 11 projects and have had no issues at all. I love that I can quickly and easily set up services that work well together.

For most projects I use the realtime database and authentication. The database is very fast and the realtime feature is essential for some of my projects. Authentication is free no matter how many monthly users I have.

I also use storage and hosting, where I get excellent performance.

All but one of my projects work within the free tier. The one project that sometimes exceeds the free tier is generally less than $1 per month. My projects are fairly small, but I know that for large projects, there might be more economical solutions somewhere else.

For me, I would highly recommend Firebase to other developers.

[BandButcher]

2nd this haha, firebase wasnt always a google product...they ended up buying them out because it was a truly innovative framework (at the time). How they've maintained the product since is debatable but the tech is solid.

I've used firebase for many apps - albeit not enterprise level - and they have been very performant and efficient. No issues tbh. But ive never paid for firebase so i cannot speak to the paid teir.

All it is under the hood is websockets, no sql db, oauth, and html/js. Yes you COULD write those integrations yourself, but doing it for many apps or for POCs would be tedious and difficult to maintain. firebase was a great playground to go from idea to code to prod quickly.

Is it the best cloud solution for enterprise production or multi tenant saas platforms... Probably not lol