Makes the hard parts of app dev easy

Goodies to make the hard parts easy

Firebase Realtime Database

Agenda

• What realtime is
• Why it's hard
• How Firebase makes it easy
• Live coding
• Real world examples
• Q&A

Realtime is

Data best served fresh

Realtime is where your bus is

Realtime is collaborative drawing

Realtime data is game state

Realtime is hard

So many servers :(

Realtime is hard

Firebase makes it easy

Some JavaScript code

var ref = new Firebase("https://hai.firebaseio-demo.com/");

ref.set("Hello, Developers!");

ref.on("value", function (snapshot) {
  var data = snapshot.val();
  console.log(data);
});

Works with

Some facts about Firebase

• Founded in 2011
• Acquired by Google in October 2014
• 160,000 developers
• Over 1,000,000 concurrent connections

We <3 developers

Citrix - GoToMeeting

Uses Firebase's realtime signaling, presence, and security rules

Citrix - Talkboard

Realtime, collaborative whiteboarding for teams

CBS

• Built a realtime chat platform for reality TV series Big Brother
• 50k concurrents at peak times, with over 27m chat message posted

More Case Studies

We talked about this stuff

• What realtime is
• Why it's hard
• How Firebase makes it easy
• Live coding
• Real world examples

The End

• Slides: mimming.com/presos/firebase-overview
• Try Firebase: firebase.com
• Chat Example: github.com/mimming/firebase-tiny-chat
• Me on Twitter: @MimmingCodes