As Yegge said, years ago: "Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy is Killing You"<p><a href="https://steve-yegge.medium.com/dear-google-cloud-your-deprecation-policy-is-killing-you-ee7525dc05dc" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://steve-yegge.medium.com/dear-google-cloud-your-deprec...</a>
Lately, Google has been killing products on spree. Today I read the news (1 month old) that now Firebase Dynamic Links are also being killed. Coincidently, in my current organisation we went live with some solution based on Firebase Dynamic Links recently with some partners. And now with this news, we have already started the discussion about it's migration.<p>A bigger discussion is that how easy is it for Google to pull the plug, then how is one expected to rely on Google for various cloud solutions they offer. Also recently Google had shut down it's domain service. Gergely had also written a blog about it <a href="https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/google-domains-to-shut-down/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/google-domains-to-shut-do...</a> .<p>In midst of all this chaos in Google Cloud offering, my questions are:<p><pre><code> * Is your company concerned about these changes?
* If yes, then what is the plan of action you guys are planning?
* What are your view on this topic?</code></pre>
Remember when they said GCP is exempt from their random product killing?<p>At a minimum one needs a good abstraction layer to facilitate lift and shift. Docker or k8s etc
They didn't actually say when it's shutting down, correct? They also said you'd get at least 12 months notice and Links would continue to work during that time. While I agree that Google shuts down services left and right, the way it seems to be approaching this one seems less terrible than previous shutdowns.
And this is why I have a hard time seeing Firebase as more than a toy (to be fair I think Amplify is a toy as well but at least it's built on things I don't see going away: s3, dynamodb, appsync, etc).<p>I hate that I'm forced to use Firebase to send push notifications and google analytics.