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Discussion on: Why I switched away from Google Firestore

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Yev

firebase is awesome, it is free for MVPs, reads are fast, client caching OMG! Their pricing policy is fair, I would not expect a communist free firestore. It is clearly optimized for mobile apps. Recently they pushed firebase emulator which allows you to emulate their stack locally. The only issue I see here is the lack of knowledge of NoSQL therefore making the wrong pick by being seduced with the pros of NoSQL. SQL has much more pain points in my opinion than firestore. BUT SQL is also great, no doubts here. The ability to discern the right choice for the problem is what makes a great developer (and human in general). All of the technologies are great, only the choice can be wrong here.