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A new open-source tool called Firenook reimplements Firebase's local emulators (Firestore, Auth and Storage) in Rust, claiming 40x faster writes and 10x lower memory use than the official Node-based emulator. It supports a --keep-data flag that restores datasets, including those with millions of documents, in about half a second without manual export/import steps.
A solo developer built a game backend called GDT (Game Development Toolkit) that has run every title they've shipped since 2016, including Marooners, Verdun, Tannenberg, Isonzo, Crash Drive 2 and 3, plus a seventh game built by another studio. The PHP version, roughly 20,000 lines running on Google App Engine with Firestore, supported Steam, Epic, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, mobile and web without a player-noticed outage in ten years, and has now been replaced by a C# version on Cloud Run.