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I loathe Googles various scaling limits.

"You need to ask a Google person to scale further, but hey we're Google and we do everything we possibly can to avoid human contact." Bleh.

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I had to increase our quota of layer 7 load balancer backends recently on GCP, submitted the request and the quota was increased within minutes. YMMV though, I guess?

The issue is that googles reputation is to avoid all contact. This gives less than zero faith in their commitments to support.

For Firebase it's actually not awful. We have 3 Firebase projects each with their caps raised to 100k concurrent connections, and it was a decent experience. Always the same person handling my support case etcetera, not too bad.

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