Firebase with Doug Stevenson

Software Engineering Daily

• Episode: Firebase with Doug Stevenson
• Website: Software Engineering Daily
• Feed URL: http://softwareengineeringdaily.com/feed/podcast
• Duration: 00:52:55
• Published: 2017-05-17 11:00

Firebase is a backend-as-a-service. The key efficiency of a backend-as-a-service is that it enables developers to go from having a 3-tier architecture (client, server, database) to a 2-tier architecture (client, backend-as-a-service). The team who started Firebase built it as a pivot. They had started a social network, and then they realized there wasn’t a good backend for chat tools. And so they started a chat-as-a-service tool, for people who wanted

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