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I work on Firebase. His characterization of Firestore is incorrect and lazy. It did not replace Realtime Database (which is the product he’s calling Firebase) they are two products which live side by side and both are being actively improved.

People assumed that because we made a new database we were killing the older one, but that was never true.

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Well, that’s a novel take on the customer is always right

"the customer is always right" doesn't mean every individual customer is always correct and you should never disagree with any of them, it means the customer, in aggregate, is correct and you need to react to customer opinions.

But also idk what else you'd want them to say "the thing you're taking shit isn't deprecated" seems like an important response to "you mishandled this deprecation".

I haven’t been totally happy with Google’s stewardship of Firebase, but that line in the article bugged me too. I didn’t think RTDB was ever deprecated.

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