Been working in this space for almost 9 years and written a lot of scrappers and web automations for various clients, I am really excited to build something like this too. Are you guys hiring? Would love to chat.
That's really weird, I have created 5+ production application as part of my consultancy, out of which 2 are $1M+ ARR now. I am curious, what are the issues you ran into while using Firebase auth?
I should have prefaced this by saying if you follow the happy path, firebase auth is probably fine most of the time. But here are some issues I can recall (it has been a while too, so maybe some of this is fixed):
- No session management apart from the JWT
- No way to force-logout users across devices
- Can't easily track active sessions
- State sync across tabs can be weird
- 1000-byte limit for custom claims
- Claims require a token refresh
- No user impersonation
- RBAC is pretty miserable to implement with rules
- Auditing gets expensive quickly
- Auth emulator doesn't quite match production behaviour
- Quota limits for email sending are brutal
- Token revocation support isn't great
- Testing custom claims is messy
- Password policy customization doesn't seem to exist (maybe I'm bad at docs though)
- Backup/restore of auth is pretty ugly
- Probably not typical to need, but integrating with existing user databases is basically not a consideration in the design of the system, so glue code gets huge fast (think integrating with Stripe customers for example)
- Auth lifecycle events are pretty limited
- No support for custom auth providers
- Custom token signing is poorly documented and difficult to reason about
Most of this is due to firebase auth being opinionated. This is fine if you don't need it to be flexible.
I could also be behind the times, but this was my experience over many projects spanning many years, so I imagine it's probably similar today.
Extremely saddening to hear this, he was an inspiration growing up as a technologist and entrepreneur. Tata does a lot of philanthropy and does a lot of free cancer treatments, aside from all the great industries he has built.
He had a great life. Is dying at 86 really unexpected or sad? It seems to me like an expected end. Exactly how long should he live for his passing to be normalized?
It is. But it is also perhaps interesting to note that most people seem to rate deaths differently depending on the age of the person. A young person cut down in their prime is a special kind of tragedy, so is the death of toddlers and young children. The passing of an old person, who by all accounts have outlived most other people on earth as far as we can tell, is saddening, especially to the people in the near family. But perhaps not shocking and traumatizing, as the other examples might be.
Just observing, not saying that this is how it should be.
I guess we are in agreement here. As far as I understand, the word shocking is used, in this context, at the unexpected happening of the event; not that the event happened. If I remember the sequence of events correctly, he was admitted to the hospital for a routine checkup and on Monday, his team had released a statement on his behalf that he was recuperating.
Another reason that a lot of Indians found this news shocking is because of the value and emotions attached to the name, "Tatas". Post India's independence, they were instrumental in helping India industrialized; the other were the Birlas.
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People tend to get misled by warnings toxicity by high doses of some vitamins. In the case of Vitamin D, you'd really have to overdo it a lot for several months to get to toxic levels.
If you examine this deeper, you'd find that it's not very easy to do, more so when you follow a doctor's recommendation and just overdo it in an effort to enhance its effects. Take a look at the dosage of supplements, look up online on how much is toxic, and the answer will change your mind on unfounded fears such as this.
I'm purposely not giving details in this comment so that people are free to lookup different (scientific) sources and decide.
