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Pros of Cloud Functions for Firebase
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  • 4
    Up and running
  • 1
    Multi-region
  • 1
    Affordable
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    Easy deployment
  • 459
    Free for side projects
  • 374
    Huge time-saver
  • 348
    Simple scaling
  • 261
    Low devops skills required
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    Easy setup
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    Add-ons for almost everything
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    Beginner friendly
  • 150
    Better for startups
  • 133
    Low learning curve
  • 48
    Postgres hosting
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    Easy to add collaborators
  • 30
    Faster development
  • 24
    Awesome documentation
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    Simple rollback
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    Focus on product, not deployment
  • 15
    Natural companion for rails development
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    Easy integration
  • 12
    Great customer support
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    GitHub integration
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    Painless & well documented
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    No-ops
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    I love that they make it free to launch a side project
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    Free
  • 3
    Great UI
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    Just works
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    PostgreSQL forking and following
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    MySQL extension
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    Security
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    Able to host stuff good like Discord Bot
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Cons of Cloud Functions for Firebase
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      Super expensive
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      Not a whole lot of flexibility
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      No usable MySQL option
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      Storage
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      Low performance on free tier
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      24/7 support is $1,000 per month

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    What is Cloud Functions for Firebase?

    Cloud Functions for Firebase lets you create functions that are triggered by Firebase products, such as changes to data in the Realtime Database, uploads to Cloud Storage, new user sign ups via Authentication, and conversion events in Analytics.

    What is Heroku?

    Heroku is a cloud application platform – a new way of building and deploying web apps. Heroku lets app developers spend 100% of their time on their application code, not managing servers, deployment, ongoing operations, or scaling.

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    What are some alternatives to Cloud Functions for Firebase and Heroku?
    Firebase
    Firebase is a cloud service designed to power real-time, collaborative applications. Simply add the Firebase library to your application to gain access to a shared data structure; any changes you make to that data are automatically synchronized with the Firebase cloud and with other clients within milliseconds.
    Google Cloud Functions
    Construct applications from bite-sized business logic billed to the nearest 100 milliseconds, only while your code is running
    NGINX
    nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.
    Apache HTTP Server
    The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the Internet.
    Amazon EC2
    It is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
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