Nice. do you have plans to abstract the db layer further for non firebase + relational stores? Specifically like a tighter integration for postgres maybe?

Yes, for sure! A lot of people have been asking for Postgres and I want to get that in this year. For now some customers are using the "Other" DB option, which gives you a REST API where you can connect to your DB of choice.

We use Freshpaint for our site (heraldhq.com) and loved how we could backtrack analytics events. Excited to see where this goes.

The companies, locations, and people referenced in this article are so thinly veiled I don't understand why they'd try to keep them anonymous at all?

I don't think they're claiming to actually anonymize them. Seems like it's just a stylistic choice to not affirmatively identify them.

And avoiding a potential libel suit.

It's only libel if it isn't true.

To save the rest of you some trouble, the startups are Oyster ("e-books"), Mixpanel ("big data"), and Github ("open source").

While it was probably a legal decision, I actually liked how it worked on an artistic level. As a reader I was trying to piece it together myself. And it also left a feeling of, 'well, this is a specific company she is talking about, but at the same time could easily apply to dozens of others in the industry.'

So they can't sue back.

Ah yes, the technicalities of our wonderful justice system.

Seems convenient. Though I've never thought of top-level async as the killer feature I've been waiting for out of V8. Unless I'm missing something about what this enables...

Author here - happy to answer any questions about our system and how it's been working for us.