Brahma111

This is one service where I am perfectly fine if I never receive any notification

Oh..and the clickbaity headline got me again.. All while I was looking for how some hacker exploited it and got Expedia's business

Have mentioned it before. Watch any recent videos of Yuval Noah Harari and he almost always talks about the concept of 'The Hackable Human'. Forget about what data they have. Soon they will know more about you than you do. It has far reaching effect but let's hope humans find a way to keep outsmarting technology.

Thanks for getting back. How can I reach you? I can send you the details. We were not even in the free tier. But for some reason after having our credit card information for close to 6 months, it was disabled since some more information was suddenly asked. I agree that some of it might be legal. But for heaven's sake don't automate the hell out everything

I am not surprised for IBM but Google could do a heck of a better job if they treated their customers a bit better. They suddenly make changes to their policies and don't care a bit while discontinuing services who don't update their products. I had two very bad experience with Google. The first was when Firebase was still a niche and we built our product on top of it. Then they made an update where certain features were deprecated in the tier that we were in. One fine day the product stopped working.

The second was a more recent one where our app was discontinued from their playstore because they updated their SMS policies. All their communication were landing to my Bulk folder. Even HN has some horror stories about their 'couldn't care less' attitude.

While I agree with you; I believe this is non-reversible. If it's not this company, 10 others will be launching their products in the next few months. Humans have become hackable and unfortunately our strength to innovate is the one that's becoming our bane. As Yuval Harari points out; in the short future companies like Google, FB will know more about us than we do.

In sometime the discussion will be why business people love PWA so much.

Clear abstraction anyone? We make it mandatory to separate the Managed service code to separate interfaces and implementation. We have the same code running both on Azure and AWS each leveraging their respective managed services. Just implement the interfaces for your need. It's not difficult.

Pls. God no.. Why this obsession with apps when a simple PWA does almost all you need. Apps are akin to what the windows app were a one and half decade back. Like web apps blew 99% of thick client app to oblivion the same is going to happen soon to the mobile apps. It isn't without reason, why Apple isn't too keen with this development (they were one of the last to implement web workers and PWA in their browsers). I hope they learn from MS' mistake and embrace PWA rather than try to impede

I have mentioned this to many.. Satya could go down as one of the greatest turnaround masters of all time. I had consulted with MS a long time ago (2005-6). The work place was toxic. I might have been with the wrong group..but even uttering Java was considered sacrilegious. If you took a Mac to their office, the security would look at suspicion. Needless to say, I never returned back after my stint. Fast-forward. MS is the largest contributor to Linux source. In MS Ignite conferences, it's not about Windows and .Net anymore rather you would find healthy all round discussions. The developer community has slowly started trusting them more than other biggies. Not just Satya himself but he has his second line all focused in creating a customer friendly environment. I will put my money on MS till Satya is at the helm of affairs.

Moreover..PWAs are not meant to replace websites. They are meant to replace Mobile Apps. Almost all business apps can be replaced by PWAs without the rigmarole of creating an app and publishing on Apple and Google store.

Oh Boy!! Another case of pre-determined surveys. CLS has already moved to production on blockchain. De Beers has done the same with Diamonds. Multiple insurance companies including our start-up are leveraging BC for direct claims settlement. Is it really difficult to understand that BC technology is not a hammer and all the use cases are not nails. You are trying to get rid of Big intermediaries, people. They are not going to make it easy. Every interaction between parties is going to be more difficult than the previous until critical mass is attained. But succeed it will and will most likely happen before we die.

Is going PWA an option? 99% of the apps can just be that; A PWA. Unfortunately most consider having an app on the store is a mandatory thing for branding. I hope PWA does the same to Apple what the web did to Microsoft; in a good way, remove lock-ins

That's apt.. I used to support them back in 2003-04 when they were struggling to survive. Quickly moved away from them when I realized their power abuse. They are the Grand-dad of locking and exploiting..

Whereas I agree that FK is right there when it comes to technology, this seems a little far fetched headline. 4 yrs back during a mega sale, FK servers crashed and they rightfully earned a lot of flak for that. From then on, they have been doing a pretty decent job (adopting actor model, PWA to name a few). But Walmart is also not living under a rock. I have consulted with them and they are just as good as any other Enterprise. Their biggest challenge is their vast team size with each group doing their own stuff in silos. FK will not help them address that

And that was like 2 decades ago when she was mentally immature. Not that what she did was justifiable under any circumstance, but for heaven's sake her term was reduced by 30 yrs. Harvard has really goofed it up if this story blows up.

This post shows, how mis-informed the community can be. If you have been following up Google Cloud and Firebase, most of the questions regarding long term support, phasing out and Google turning rogue wouldn't be asked. Firebase is one key aspect of Google's cloud strategy. Pretty much everything on Mobile services is tied with Firebase, some way or the other. We have now built 2 products on Firebase and are reasonably happy. The real-time nature of FB makes it alluring to so many use cases.

Having said that, Google should surely address questions on pricing and supporting other key Mobile platforms like Xamarin. Tweeting to the Firebase handle on issues never get replied. With other bleeding edge services that Google provides, Firebase certainly has positioned itself nice. The teething issues should be small things to fix.