Recently, we haven’t seen much marketing for Firebase, Google’s core Backend-as-a-Service product.<p>Given Google’s well‑known reputation for discontinuing products that don’t meet its internal success criteria, I’m wondering whether Firebase is considered successful by Google’s standards.<p>They’ve already begun deprecating individual services under the Firebase umbrella—for example, Firebase Dynamic Links (https://firebase.google.com/support/dynamic-links-faq).<p>Does anyone know where Firebase’s App Backend‑as‑a‑Service is headed?
Firebase justifies its existence by serving as a customer acquisition vehicle for GCP. This is actually quite valuable given the huge marketing costs required to get a new enterprise cloud customer.<p>You're likely concerned about the precedent of Facebook shutting down Parse back in the day, leaving many projects stranded. Facebook though had no real commercial interest in cloud services back then.
For big companies like this, I like to go look at the activity on sdks and related projects. Typically activity will flat line before a sun setting announcement is made. Its hard to say how much lead time that buys you, but I have found it a useful barometer.<p>It seems like the firebase repos have had a fair amount of activity.<p><a href="https://github.com/orgs/firebase/repositories">https://github.com/orgs/firebase/repositories</a>
I don't see Google ending firebase anytime soon, but I don't like building inside of closed systems anymore.<p>It's very very difficult to migrate to a different service provider. Since Firebase is ultimately closed source, it's not your app. Your sharing it with Google.<p>Running a custom solution with Render(Heroku, etc) takes a bit more effort, but it's mine. I can actually open source it. I have more control.<p>For my current project I went from Firebase, to Superbase and settled on Django. I have some fairly complex logic and supabase just wasn't cutting it.
Literally yesterday a friend linked the announcement of Firebase Studio with AI building of apps on Instagram:
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