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I just came across a <a href="https://medium.com/@contact_16315/firebase-costs-increased-by-7-000-81dc0a27271d" target="_blank">really interesting article on medium</a> discussing how a change in Firebase pricing resulted in a 7,000% cost increase for a HomeAutomation <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/startup" target="_blank">startup</a>. As a co-founder of <a href="http://www.deepstreamhub.com" target="_blank">deepstreamHub</a>, a realtime backend as a service, this landed very close to home. Therefore, I would love to provide a bit of insight into the challenges we faced and how we tried to overcome them when developing and running a Platform as a Service (“PaaS”) offering.