wow.<p>A year ago when I rewrote my startup&#x27;s product in AngularJS I was on the fence between Firebase and Parse. Built prototypes against both and ended up going with Firebase for a few reasons - 1: price, 2: owned by Google and not FB and 3: the whole 3 way data binding thing.<p>Awesome to see them releasing code for the backend but I&#x27;m finding this trend really disturbing - relying on 3rd party services for everything.<p>Doesn&#x27;t anyone remember back in the day (like 5 years ago hah) when programmers &#x2F; admins actually bought software and ran it on their own servers and didn&#x27;t &quot;rent&quot; it? I know, crazy right? To own software and if the company went under, things could still be fine for a while longer.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s time to consider my use of Firebase and go back to the way things used to be.