Firebase vs AWS Amplify comes up in almost every “how do we build this fast” conversation for a new web or mobile app, and the honest answer is that both platforms will get you to a working backend in an afternoon. The harder question is what happens twelve months later, once auth pricing has crept past […]
Firebase vs MongoDB is really a choice between a bundled application platform and a database you assemble a stack around. Firebase is Google’s managed backend platform, built around Firestore — a serverless NoSQL document database wired directly into authentication, hosting, cloud functions, and real-time sync. MongoDB is a general-purpose document database on its own: you run […]
The direction that proves whether a migration practice is actually vendor-neutral: why some teams leave Supabase, and what really happens when they do. We’ve spent the last several articles walking through why teams move to Supabase — from Firebase, Amazon RDS, Neon, Heroku, Render, and legacy MySQL/MSSQL systems. If that’s all we ever wrote about, it would […]
Why teams move past Render’s database-only model, the specific limits worth knowing about, and how simple the underlying migration actually is. Render earned its reputation as the platform a lot of teams moved to after Heroku’s free tier disappeared in 2022 — modern dashboard, Git-based deploys, genuinely useful free static hosting. For plenty of projects, it’s still […]
Why companies are moving off Heroku, what it costs to stay versus move, and enough engineering detail for your technical team to trust the plan. If you’re a founder or a budget owner rather than the engineer who deploys code, a “database migration” conversation usually starts with a question you actually care about: is this […]
Why teams still make this move, exactly where the dialect differences bite, and how to plan a conversion that doesn’t quietly corrupt data on the way through. Every other migration in this series has one thing in common that makes life easier: the source is already Postgres. A MySQL or MSSQL to Supabase migration doesn’t get that […]
