Firebase

In our previous post, we explored how Horda entities work like Flutter’s stateful widgets, but on the backend. We also mentioned that Horda is a stateful serverless platform. But what does that mean exactly? If you are a Flutter developer, whenever someone mentions the word “serverless”, there’s a high chance that Firebase Cloud Functions would come to mind. Except unlike Horda, they are stateless. So in this post let’s explore what’s the difference between stateful and stateless serverless, and how stateful serverless replaces traditional databases with a much faster, simpler, and more cost-efficient approach. ...

If you’re a Flutter developer who’s ever tried to build a backend, you know how challenging the transition can be. You need to learn about databases, HTTP protocols, and often pick up an entirely new programming language. And if your app requires custom business logic with complex state management, things get even more complicated. Perhaps you even worked with Firebase, so you know how cloud functions become difficult to work with, and maintaining state across serverless invocations feels like fighting against the platform. ...