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Hands-On Serverless Applications with Kotlin

You're reading from   Hands-On Serverless Applications with Kotlin Develop scalable and cost-effective web applications using AWS Lambda and Kotlin

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788993708
Length 386 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ameya Kulkarni Ameya Kulkarni
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About Firebase

Firebase focuses much on mobile app development, but a good and complete mobile app cannot be developed without the web. This is why Firebase has a lot of services that focus on the backend. To give you an idea, here are a few services that are widely used:

  • Real-time database: Just like its name, the data is stored and synced in real-time. This can happen on any devices using cloud-hosted NoSQL databases. It takes milliseconds to sync and reflect the data across multiple connected devices. It also supports offline mode and works well. This provides a great user experience, even in flaky or no-network conditions.
  • Cloud storage: A server is all about processing and serving the data. Not all data is of the String type. We sometimes need to store data such as images, audio, and large video files. This cannot be performed or fulfilled by the real-time database....
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