Curious mind here: I have few projects running on Firebase. Haven't had any issues so far. What type of safety issues/bugs and limitations are you referring to?
AWS, GCP and Azure are all solid cloud platforms with high market adoption. I've found AWS easier to work with given the super simple and extensive documentation.
However, you can't go wrong with any of the CP. what is important is you pick one, get started and work relentlessly and become the best consultant there is. It's not easy, but its that simple ! all the best !
Lots of good advice around. My Personal story might have a few takeaways for you.
Started as a sw developer in India, moved to US progressed as technical expert on the product. Moved back to India and became Manager. In 3 years as a manager realized how much I liked coding. I am at best an average developer, but the satisfaction I got after fixing a small defect was priceless. By this time I've had 15 years of "experience" in industry. I did my masters and now working as a full stack developer. Couldn't be happier.
Take a month off your job. Find out what you really like. You can read through all the replies let them brew, but the final answer will come from within. Trust your gut and take the risk.
I abhorred being a developer because it’s like being a factory worker. I then created my company, have 2-3 people under me, I’m 70% coding and customers are throwing money at us. I’m still a developer, but super happy through work. I believe the difference is leeway in how I can organize my schedule, and the 30% variety which allows me to speak to humans instead of computers.
I was always denied promotions, I’m from the generation where cool workplaces promoted only women, so it was very unfair. I wanted to be on the path to become PO. And given how fast the startup I created reached $1m ARR, I confirm I’m satisfyingly able to PO and the lost promotions were just plain old gender preferences of workplaces.
I now love my work. Speaking to humans (and not through chat) was my need, I’ve told it to every employer. So yes, find what you need and move heaven and earth until you get it, may the force be with you.
Have I posted this while i was sleeping? It sounds exactly like me. I guess I am bitten by analysis paralysis bug. With hundreds of new frameworks coming out each day, one day you think to solve a problem with shiny new tool, next day there is a new one. I spend @ couple of hours each day "thinking" about items to build, unfortunately not been able to draw a line in sand and start it.
Nice work ... what about privacy tough?
If I am not mistaken, the album id is 6 chars long with the combination of lower and uppercase a-z and digits, can be brute forced...
Yes, that's true. It's not particularly secure. I don't think many people are going to try and gain brute force to a random photo album, especially considering 80% are blank with people just trying out the site..
You've struck a chord there.... I graduated from a college and got a high paying job in a big enterprise, the pay was good so, I stuck to it, I am a mediocre developer, I faked my way and moved up into the organization, now I am Group Lead and pretty good at it, I love working with people. However, I'ev recently developed an itch and really want to code. Now with 10 years of "experience" behind me, I am not getting the roles of developer, as in India, there is very high importance attached to the number of years of experience. I want to make a move and start all over again, but again the pay is too good to quit.
I know this is not the right place, but I've to mention 2 things: I visited the site: http://www.startupdiaries.info/
1) I could not find any way to contact you.
2) When I register on the site, I got the activation mail, which had the URL starting with: "http://localhost:3000
