I initially learned about it because a junior dev asked for advice on one of his/her apps. It was a college app, simple, it just gathered info from students. But, they offloaded all data to a third-party database. So you are actually giving a company a lot of sensitive, personal information about a fucking college.
He/She was concerned (and with good reason) about the safety of data. Had to learn the bad way :(
I would trust a service by junior devs more if it was hosted by a third-party database because so many companies have insecurely set up their environments over the years. Especially if the data is encrypted in a way the service can't read it, what would be the harm?
He/She was concerned (and with good reason) about the safety of data. Had to learn the bad way :(