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The Pulse: Firebase’s global outage & poor response
Gergely Orosz · The Pragmatic Engineer
Oct 1, 2026 · 1 min listen · Last updated October 1, 2026
The Pulse is a series covering events, insights, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Today, we cover: Firebase: global outage & poor handling by Google. The Firebase iOS SDK crashed after a backend change, crashing all apps which used Firebase analytics for 2-6 hours.
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