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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 ...
BaaS providers form a bridge between the frontend of an application and various cloud-based backends via a unified API and SDK. [3] Providing a consistent way to manage backend data means that developers do not need to redevelop their own backend for each of the services that their apps need to access, [10] potentially saving both time and ...
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 API security entails authenticating programs or users who are invoking a web API. Along with the ease of API integrations come the difficulties of ensuring proper authentication (AuthN) and authorization (AuthZ). In a multitenant environment, security controls based on proper AuthN and AuthZ can help ensure that API access is limited to ...
"X as a service" (rendered as *aaS in acronyms) is a phrasal template for any business model in which a product use is offered as a subscription-based service rather than as an artifact owned and maintained by the customer. The converse of conducting or operating something "as a service" is doing the same using "on-premise" assets (such
Web Authentication (WebAuthn) is a web standard published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] WebAuthn is a core component of the FIDO2 Project under the guidance of the FIDO Alliance . [ 4 ]
In software development, frontend refers to the presentation layer that users interact with, while backend involves the data management and processing behind the scenes. In the client–server model, the client is usually considered the frontend, handling user-facing tasks, and the server is the backend, managing data and logic.
An open API (often referred to as a public API) is a publicly available application programming interface that provides developers with programmatic access to a (possibly proprietary) software application or web service. [1] Open APIs are APIs that are published on the internet and are free to access by consumers. [2]