Build Scalable Web Apps with Firestore Google

If you are building and maintaining large web or mobile applications, you may have heard of ., Google's scalable, serverless document database. But you've probably also wondered how Firestore is compatible with other Google Cloud database services. To help you understand the core strengths of Firestore, Google recently published a new reference guide explains Firestore's distinctive features such as real-time updates, offline data stability, and transactions.

Firestore is especially useful in situations where you care about both scale and speed of development. If you need to quickly build an application that you expect to serve a large amount of traffic, then Firestore is a suitable choice.

For example, a lot of Google Cloud customers are using Firestore recently to quickly build and deploy new applications in response to unexpected and unexpected disruptions caused by the COVID-19 crisis. out. By making Firestore the front-end for the mainframe database system, government agencies can avoid the overload of sudden spikes in load. Healthcare agencies can develop mobile apps with Firestore to make information available to the public, aid in the initial self-diagnosis of the virus, and allow the public to contact health officials .

This new guide provides a reference architecture for use cases in retail, media, telecommunications, gaming, and the Internet of Things (IoT). For example, the guide describes the architecture for a collaborative content editing system, as illustrated in the diagram below.

The New York Times media leader chose the Firestore database service as they built a true real-time collaboration tool that would allow multiple writers and editors to make changes to a document at the same time. for a while, keep an eye on the latest updates. Firestore is designed just for this type of task, as it supports offline and real-time syncing.

See more about Firestore Guide New for more details and next steps to build your own solution using Firestore.

Updated: Gimasys.