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0 pointsnathancahill9y ago0 comments

I'd like to caution you about doing this. Look at Parse. Not owning the "underlying servers" your product runs on is a liability, not a benefit.

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samdung9y ago

We did weigh the options for/against but went with Firebase because they got acquired by Google and the Founders (and Google) made public promises not to shut it down.

Again, we don't rely entirely on Firebase. There is always another database (like AWS Dynamodb or Google Cloud Datastore) in the picture ... but again all hosted in the cloud ... not much servers to manage for my team.

If Google and AWS shut down ... thats when the fit shits the fan :)

falcolas9y ago

> If Google and AWS shut down

I would be more concerned about what happens if your account on Google or AWS is shut down - much more likely, and less notice if it were to occur.

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