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In 2014, Firebase launched two products: Firebase Hosting [6] and Firebase Authentication. [7] This positioned the company as a mobile backend as a service. [citation needed] In October 2014, Firebase was acquired by Google. [8] A year later, in October 2015, Google acquired Divshot, an HTML5 web-hosting platform, to merge it with the Firebase ...
Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) is part of the Firebase platform, which is a cloud service model that automates backend development or a Backend-as-a-service (BaaS). After the Firebase company was acquired by Google in 2014, some Firebase platform products or technologies were integrated with Google’s existing services.
Web and mobile apps require a similar set of features on the backend, including notification service, integration with social networks, and cloud storage. [9] [10] Each of these services has its own API that must be individually incorporated into an app, a process that can be time-consuming and complicated for app developers. [11]
Blockchain as a service (BaaS) is an enterprise-level software service [13] that allows businesses to use cloud-based solutions to build, host and use their own blockchain apps, smart contracts and functions on the blockchain infrastructure developed by a vendor. Just like the growing trend of using software-as-a-service (SaaS) [14]
A web application (or web app) is application software that is created with web technologies and runs via a web browser. [1] [2] Web applications emerged during the late 1990s and allowed for the server to dynamically build a response to the request, in contrast to static web pages. [3] Web applications are commonly distributed via a web server ...
OAuth is an authorization protocol, rather than an authentication protocol. Using OAuth on its own as an authentication method may be referred to as pseudo-authentication. [ 26 ] The following diagrams highlight the differences between using OpenID (specifically designed as an authentication protocol) and OAuth for authorization.
CAS allows multi-tier authentication via proxy address. A cooperating back-end service, like a database or mail server, can participate in CAS, validating the authenticity of users via information it receives from web applications. Thus, a webmail client and a webmail server can all implement CAS.
Netlify is a remote-first cloud computing company that offers a development platform that includes build, deploy, and serverless backend services for web applications and dynamic websites. [ 6 ] The company enables building, deploying, and scaling websites whose source files are stored in the version control system Git and then generated into ...