A few hours ago, the popular cloud service used for developing Google Firebase apps experienced a serious issue, causing massive outages and crashes across thousands of apps, including Apple iOS. The glitch spread panic among unsuspecting developers.
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According to a discussion on the Firebase issue tracker on GitHub, a glitch in the Google Analytics component of Firebase (for iOS) causes the app to crash immediately upon launch – the issue has been listed as resolved. Firebase is used by thousands of apps for backend and analytics, so the crashes happened almost simultaneously, prompting a flurry of complaints from developers trying to understand what was going on.
One person believed that the problem was his fault and he spent a lot of tokens on the AI platform trying to debug his application. Others speculated that the problem was in Firebase, but all they could do was report the problem to Google and wait for a fix, watching the number of crashes increase by the minute. Google released a fix hours later, warning that due to the nature of caching, some apps may continue to crash for up to four hours after the fix is deployed.
Developers are now reporting that crash frequency has dropped significantly, although crash frequency was still higher than normal an hour ago. Google has yet to provide a full explanation for the failure, and Firebase status column Logged events are not displayed. Perhaps efforts to eliminate the problem entirely are still ongoing and the causes are being clarified.
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