[other Firebase founder] It was painful to read the article[1] this morning, especially since I was one of the people responsible for dropping the ball on getting Home Automation the credit to cover the overage a few weeks ago. We're working with the founder to make sure he's in a better spot. If you have similarly serious issues, my email is: james@firebase.com<p>To address a couple of points that have been raised:<p>1. We're aware that as we've integrated with Google our support response time & quality has decreased. I'm working with our team to do better.<p>2. We know better querying and web offline are needed for the Realtime Database, stay tuned.<p>Finally, I hope you enjoy all the new features that launched today! (<a href="https://firebase.googleblog.com/2017/05/whats-new-from-firebase-at-google-io.html" rel="nofollow">https://firebase.googleblog.com/2017/05/whats-new-from-fireb...</a>) Leave a comment if you have thoughts/comments.<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14356409" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14356409</a>
I was an early Parse engineer (4th engineer to join the company) and now am the SDK engineering lead for Firebase.<p>The experience of working on Firebase at Google is vastly different from Parse at Facebook, and it shows in Google’s continued commitment to building and expanding Firebase, integrating it with its Cloud Platform products, and otherwise pouring huge amounts of effort into making Firebase great for developers. Open sourcing our SDKs gives us even more ways to engage with the developer community and allows us to be more transparent with the progress we’re making.<p>This announcement is just a first step down the path toward more transparency with our SDKs, but we hope to foster community and build trust in the tools we’re developing, and welcome your contributions!
This post shows, how mis-informed the community can be. If you have been following up Google Cloud and Firebase, most of the questions regarding long term support, phasing out and Google turning rogue wouldn't be asked. Firebase is one key aspect of Google's cloud strategy. Pretty much everything on Mobile services is tied with Firebase, some way or the other. We have now built 2 products on Firebase and are reasonably happy. The real-time nature of FB makes it alluring to so many use cases.<p>Having said that, Google should surely address questions on pricing and supporting other key Mobile platforms like Xamarin. Tweeting to the Firebase handle on issues never get replied. With other bleeding edge services that Google provides, Firebase certainly has positioned itself nice. The teething issues should be small things to fix.
This means that I can host my own Firebase-built web application myself? It'll be just as fast as if it ran on Google's infrastructure (assuming machines are the same)?<p>Is this kind of an insinuation that Google plans to drop Firebase soon and leave it to the open source community to take care of? What are Firebase's revenues like?
Wow, this is exactly what I was predicting in my comment on the other thread ( <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14359479" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14359479</a> ). James is solid, great job team!