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Show HN: Firenook – Firebase emulators in Rust: 40× faster writes, 10× less RAM

Hi HN, we have been developing with Firebase for a long time, and the only way Firebase developers can build apps without directly costing them is using the official Firebase Emulator Suite. However, the issue with this suite is, it's dependent and running on Java with a old Console UI (not updated in years), that was not built to support tons and millions of data and has pretty bad developer experience. For a long time, we were hitting Out of Memory on even high specs laptop while developing and the worst part is while this happens all the persists data keep getting lost. We were honestly fru

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tl;dv (Too Lazy; Didn't Validate): 181,874 Meetings Left Wide Open

How a missing Firestore security rule on tl;dv exposed 181,874 meetings from 84,312 users across 35,003 domains, including live calls I could join uninvited, and how six months of disclosure got me nothing but seen receipts.

bobdahacker blog · EN

The Pulse: Firebase’s global outage & poor response

The Firebase iOS SDK crashed after a backend change, crashing all apps which used Firebase analytics for 2-6 hours. Google didn’t update the status page, but did offer a postmortem 4 days later.

Pragmatic Engineer · EN