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What do you run on it or use it for? Anything to share?
by mescalito 6y ago
What do you run on it or use it for? Anything to share?
- latchkey 6y agoI have an iOS Flutter and a webapp that talks to this as a backend for my business. It is private and all low usage, but I like the idea that this is infinitely scalable and doesn't require any effort to maintain.
- nicoburns 6y agoInfinitely scalable's a bit of myth in my experience. We've switched firebase app to a small postgres instance and have seen all of our performance issues magically melt away.
- latchkey 6y agoFirebase is a service that encompasses a bunch of things. Do you mean Cloud Firestore? To be clear, when I reference the infinite scalability, I mean the ability of cloud functions to spin up as many instances as I need. In terms of database load, I'd fully expect to have to migrate to a larger instance, but that is also relatively easy with cloud sql postgres.
- wdb 6y agoCloud Firestore how does that relate to Datastore? Really wish Google would allow multi-region Cloud SQL like AWS allows with RDS. Datastore is such a pain to use with its index requirements
- nicoburns 6y agoFirestore is the next generation: https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/firestore-or-datastore https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/firestore-or-datasto...
- nicoburns 6y agoAh yeah, I was mostly talking about the database offerings. The cloud functions can scale infinitely.
- latchkey 6y agoCloud Firestore scales just fine, like any database, you have to know how to work with it. You switched from a nosql database to a sql database... two totally different performance profiles.