--- title: RealtimeConf in Portland | daily.dev description: Firebase's team recaps their trip to the second annual RealtimeConf in Portland, reflecting on how the company evolved since attending in 2011 under its former... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/realtimeconf-in-portland-lworewu4j twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: RealtimeConf in Portland | daily.dev og:description: Firebase's team recaps their trip to the second annual RealtimeConf in Portland, reflecting on how the company evolved since attending in 2011 under its former... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/realtimeconf-in-portland-lworewu4j og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/lWoRewU4J.png og:image:alt: RealtimeConf in Portland og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # RealtimeConf in Portland **[Firebase](https://daily.dev/sources/firebase-blog)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Firebase's team recaps their trip to the second annual RealtimeConf in Portland, reflecting on how the company evolved since attending in 2011 under its former codename Plankton, including launching a private beta and closing a $1.4 million seed round. Team member Michael gave a lightning talk covering Firebase's core concepts—real-time data sync, persistent storage, automatic scaling, and data accessibility—and demoed the Graphical Debugger. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [429: Why CodePen Rebuilt Its Realtime Service](https://daily.dev/posts/429-why-codepen-rebuilt-its-realtime-service-zabd8jmna) · CodePen · 5 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#firebase](https://daily.dev/tags/firebase) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/realtimeconf-in-portland-lworewu4j) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"RealtimeConf in Portland","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/realtimeconf-in-portland-lworewu4j","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/realtimeconf-in-portland-lworewu4j"},"datePublished":"2026-08-23T12:21:30.307Z","dateModified":"2026-08-23T12:39:28.107Z","description":"Firebase's team recaps their trip to the second annual RealtimeConf in Portland, reflecting on how the company evolved since attending in 2011 under its former...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/7ed721de96163685d26ab7e314be3ebc?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/7ed721de96163685d26ab7e314be3ebc?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Firebase","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Firebase","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--i395oqZH--/f_auto,q_auto/v1787487448/logos/firebase-blog?_a=BAMAMicg0","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/firebase-blog"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/realtimeconf-in-portland-lworewu4j","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"firebase","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Firebase","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/firebase-blog"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"RealtimeConf in Portland"}]} ```