Tagged #firestore

2 notes.

• Aug 10, 2026·~6 min

  Firestore deletes nothing on its own, and a document is the smallest thing it can split

  Two Firestore properties that decide the schema for live shared state: TTL is a policy rather than a field, and the document is the unit that expires, transacts, and hotspots.

• Jul 18, 2026·~16 min

  A mounted bucket is not a database — even when SQLite seems to work

  What a tiny Cloud Run deployment taught me about ephemeral containers, deceptive GCS FUSE persistence, Firestore transactions, cutover proofs, and the one innocent polling loop that can dominate the bill.