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What’s new at Firebase Summit 2022

Eliminating barriers in learning using the Realtime Database

Simplifying apparel purchasing using Firebase Realtime Database

Building Firebase Quickdraw Multiplayer

What’s new at Firebase Summit 2021

Firebase Realtime Database Launches in Singapore

Measuring Realtime Database performance with Firebase Performance Monitoring

A New Region and API for the Realtime Database

Helpful product updates from Firebase Summit 2020

How the Google Doodle team used the Realtime Database to build a multiplayer game

Increasing the scaling limits of the Firebase Realtime Database

What's new at Firebase Summit 2019

Firebase Realtime Database Supports SSL Certificate Transparency

How to Perform Large Deletes in the Realtime Database

What’s new at Firebase Summit 2018

In-App Messaging, Crashlytics integrations, and more! Oh my!

Alert Alert! The Firebase Realtime Database now supports Google Stackdriver Alerts!

Introducing Query-based Security Rules

Using Android Architecture Components with Firebase Realtime Database (Part 3)

Using Android Architecture Components with Firebase Realtime Database (Part 2)

Using Android Architecture Components with Firebase Realtime Database (Part 1)

Realtime Database Monitoring with Stackdriver

Read and write your Realtime Database with the Firebase CLI

Easier scaling with multi-database support!

Cloud Firestore vs the Realtime Database: Which one do I use?

Introducing Conditional REST Requests

Cloud Functions Realtime Database Triggers Are Now More Efficient

Accessing Database from the Python Admin SDK

Increasing the Realtime Database concurrency limits

Profiling your Realtime Database Performance

What happens to database listeners when security rules reject an update?

Live from the Firebase Dev Summit in Berlin: Firebase, six months after I/O

Group Security in the Firebase Database

Announcing Automated Daily Backups for the Firebase Database

Sending notifications between Android devices with Firebase Database and Cloud Messaging

Have you met the Realtime Database?

Behind the scenes: Firebass ARG Challenge

The Firebase CLI: now with database commands

Client-side fan-out for data consistency

Introducing multi-location updates and more

Introducing Firebase Queue

Announcing Mobile Offline Support

Private Backups for Firebase Data

The 2^120 Ways to Ensure Unique Identifiers

Firebase: Now with more querying!

Hacker News now has an API. It's Firebase

GeoFire 2.0

Handling Synchronized Arrays with Real-Time Firebase Data

Best Practices: Arrays in Firebase

Announcing Streaming for the Firebase REST API

Queries, Part 2: Advanced Searches with Firebase, made Plug-and-Play Simple

Queries, Part 1: Common SQL Queries Converted for Firebase

New Feature: Improved String Validation in Security and Firebase Rules

How To Build a Presence System

Denormalizing Your Data is Normal

Announcing Firepad - Our Open Source Collaborative Text Editor

Firebase Will Require SSL Starting February 4th

Firebase databases now support SSL

Our Talk on Multiplayer Games at O'Reilly Fluent

Developers, meet Firebase!