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Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by boulos »

nawazdhandala wrote: post #147
fierycatnet wrote: post #83

Hm. I personally haven't used Parse and I didn't even know they were with Facebook but I've seen it mentioned as a pretty popular back-end platform for Android apps (for example). What's the alternative then? AWS probably then?

I would not tie myself to a Cloud Platform but use open source stuff like docker which can be moved between Clouds. Btw, There's CloudBoost.io which is an alternative to Parse and is both on Docker (self-hosted) or as a managed solution at CloudBoost.io

Would you mind adding a "Disclaimer: I'm the co-founder of CloudBoost.io"? I've got nothing against you promoting your project when people need alternatives, but it's important that people realize you've got a stake in it. Like so:

Disclaimer: I work on Compute Engine, but not Firebase ;).

Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by bsaul »

ergothus wrote: post #137
muzani wrote: post #129

Well, this sucks. My company is about to get acquired for our technology. A huge part of the tech relies on Parse. I mean they were charging for it! Who would think that they will shutting down? I guess we'll have to rebuild that part from scratch starting right now.

Not from scratch, since they are offering the server code on github (see top comment here)

i would not be surprised to see a company reusing this code to provide a 100% compatible service in the coming month.

Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by intellegacy »

elcct wrote: post #145

I always thought of Parse as a service for someone too lazy to setup mongodb. But to be serious, I think that was a nice tool to get ideas up and running for testing purposes. Running in production? Hell no.

What would you recommend? Im' a new app developer. Debating whether I should begin using Firebase or .. what you just said.

The thing is, there are articles guiding me through using Firebase. I'm not sure there are articles telling me how to setup mongodb and where

Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by estel »

kuzmin wrote: post #59

Currently using Parse for Push notifications (it's simple to send a request to Parse and it handles iOS vs Android issues). Is there any tool out there that has similar functionality? Ie. you register all your users devices there and they simplify the sending of push notifications.

Google Cloud Messaging actually works really well for this.

Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by gfosco »

intellegacy wrote: post #149
gfosco wrote: post #2

Separately, we developed an open-source Parse-compatible API server for Node/Express. https://github.com/ParsePlatform/parse-server This, along with the database migration tools released earlier, allow developers a full migration path to move from Parse hosted data + API to their own infrastructure. Over the weekend, I set up a website & app on a $5 DigitalOcean box running Parse and Mongo locally.

how long does the full migration and setting the digitical ocean box take to do? debating whether i should do that, or just start over with firebase

Migration is based on data size, but setting up the API server on a new VPS is quick... I'd say less than one hour from a fresh image on Digital Ocean. I'll try to publish a guide for that part.

Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by hkmurakami »

Cshelton wrote: post #40

It always sucks when things have to come to an end, however, this is a pretty graceful shutdown if you ask me. Many other service providers, especially in other industries, would often times send you a letter with a month, sometimes less, notice. From a business learning experience, I'm really interested in the reasoning. I'm hoping a detailed blog post comes out of this, which I'm sure it will, just as a "case study…

I feel like it reflects FB's character as an open source company.

Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by intellegacy »

gfosco wrote: post #185
intellegacy wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

how long does the full migration and setting the digitical ocean box take to do? debating whether i should do that, or just start over with firebase

Migration is based on data size, but setting up the API server on a new VPS is quick... I'd say less than one hour from a fresh image on Digital Ocean. I'll try to publish a guide for that part.

that'd be great! thanks. please post the guide to HN or on the parse blog

Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by gevaperry »

tbrock wrote: post #107
chasing wrote: post #18

Which alternatives would people recommend?

Honestly, there are none, huge opportunity here.

Not true. There's https://www.backand.com, kinvey, appcelerator titanium and others. There's a list here: http://www.frontendhandbook.com/tools/baas.html

Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by boulos »

To those concerned about Firebase, here's the latest tweet from Firebase:

https://twitter.com/Firebase/status/692845862527995904

> Not a great day for app developers :( Firebase is healthy & actively working on many new exciting features here at Google #parse

Disclaimer: I work on Compute Engine not Firebase (but I sit next to them).

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