BaaS (Backend-as-a-Service) Integration
Supabase, Firebase, Convex — productionized with the discipline these tools assume you bring.
- Timeline
- 6–10 weeks
- Engagement
- Senior, embedded
- Pricing
- Outcome-based
- Discipline
- Cloud Infrastructure & Backend Systems
⏚ Summary
What this engagement is, plainly.
BaaS platforms get you to MVP fast and become your biggest tech debt at scale. We integrate them with the architecture and operational discipline that keep them productive past month six.
Problems we solve
Your prototype on Firebase or Supabase works but you don't trust it for production traffic.
Realtime features are slow, expensive, or both, and you don't know which knob to turn.
Row-level security rules have grown organically and no one's confident they're tight.
⏚ Approach
How we run this engagement.
- 01Phase
Schema + access discipline
Database schema reviewed, RLS policies tested, indexes chosen on real query patterns. We treat BaaS schemas with the same rigor as anything else.
- 02Phase
Realtime as a feature, not a default
We use realtime subscriptions where they earn their keep, and short-poll or async elsewhere. Bills scale with use; we tune use.
- 03Phase
Escape hatches
Edge functions, server actions, your-own-API — we layer in escape hatches so you're never trapped when BaaS doesn't fit.
⏚ Deliverables
What you get, signed off.
Schema + RLS policy review and rewrite
Realtime usage audit + optimization
Auth flow integration
Edge functions / server actions layer
Monitoring + cost dashboard
⏚ Stack we typically use
Tools, not religion.
We pick on workload and team shape, not on fashion. Anything below is a default — swappable when your context demands.
- Supabase
- Firebase
- Convex
- Postgres
- Prisma
- Drizzle
Outcome
A BaaS-backed system that performs predictably, costs are modeled not discovered, and the escape hatch is ready when you need it.
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⏚ Engagement Initiation
Have a hard problem worth doing once, well?
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