I'd like another answer like. "We are thinking about providing a community version that one can deploy on its own servers, then we provide the IaaS when the customer might want to scale". If Parse had an opersource version to begin with, it would have been much much more successful and people would have been less worried about building on a third party platform.
If Firebase closes tomorrow there will be no migration strategy for people who built their infrastructure around Firebase.
> Firebase is very complementary to Google's other product offerings
Google is a big org. Tomorrow some upper executive you don't even know might decide your product doesn't add value anymore. You know that.
1. This is pretty irrelevant to whether the mechanism is that some magical bigwig exec decides a project "doesn't add value", which is what was suggested might happen.
2. Plenty of companies kill plenty of products.
They just don't bother to announce it, they let it die quietly and silently
> If Firebase closes tomorrow there will be no migration strategy for people who built their infrastructure around Firebase.
To be fair, the same thing could have been said about Parse yesterday. Thankfully they've done as good a job as can be expected in releasing an open source implementation.
But indeed, I might have stuck with Firebase had there been something like that available. Instead, we switched while patiently waiting for a js implementation that supported offline sync.
From a customer's perspective, Parse is not remotely related to Facebook's core products. But Firebase is part of Google Cloud Platform. So I guess as long as Google Cloud Platform is active, Firebase will be operational too.
I'd like another answer like. "We are thinking about providing a community version that one can deploy on its own servers, then we provide the IaaS when the customer might want to scale". If Parse had an opersource version to begin with, it would have been much much more successful and people would have been less worried about building on a third party platform.
If Firebase closes tomorrow there will be no migration strategy for people who built their infrastructure around Firebase.
> Firebase is very complementary to Google's other product offerings
Google is a big org. Tomorrow some upper executive you don't even know might decide your product doesn't add value anymore. You know that.