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Facebook is closing Parse

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Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by Startups411 »

pferde wrote: post #444
Startups411 wrote: post #375

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What about push notifications and Parse Config? Social apps that triggered push notifications now loose that functionality when moving to Parse Server, right? Also what about security? One of the beautiful things about Parse was not having to worry about servers and the security of back-end because you knew Parse was on top of it.

Depends on your viewpoint: One of the beautiful things about having your own back-end is not having to worry whether or not some 3rd party team is not neglecting security of the back-end because you know you are on top of it.

You sound like somebody who feels comfortable handling security, but for boostrapped and/or a self-funded or even small funded startups, that's extra money that goes to plug a major whole that didn't exist with Parse because they made user authentication, permissions, and security simple.

I'm no security expert. So now instead of concentrating on growing the user base, gaining traction and making the best experience possible for our users, that means finding, interviewing, and hiring more people to handle back-end security which takes a lot of time out of improving the product.

How time consuming on a hours per day would it be to stay on top of handling security on your own? How many engineers would it take and at what cost per engineer?

Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by spimmy »

MattRogish wrote: post #470
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.

Hey everyone looking for a migration path out - we have a “DevOps-as-a-Service” model where we can migrate Parse folks to AWS (not DO unfortunately) with full infrastructure automation, immutable infrastructure, autoscaling, chatOps deployments, monitoring and alerting, etc. for a flat rate. We have a platform that we’ve built that makes this possible - think of it as a Django/Rails/etc. for AWS: https://www.reactive…

Nice. These guys are legit. (RIP, Parse :( )

Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by dang »

andrewbellay wrote: post #340

If folks need help migrating, you can get it done quickly and cheaply with some help from Toptal ( http://www.toptal.com/#select-uncanny-hackers-today ) -- this sort of stuff is right up their alley..

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10991745 and marked it off-topic.

Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by joering2 »

rms_returns wrote: post #448
joering2 wrote: post #301

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Facebook owns whatsapp. You already making FB money even if you not crossing FB site. Actually you're working for Facebook... and you do it for free!

Kindly explain, if WhatsApp doesn't show me ads nor do I have a paid subscription to WhatsApp then how is Facebook making money from me?

Sure it goes something like this:

- hey rms, how you been?

- good Alice, just been busy - we're finally looking to buy our first house.. so excited about it can't wait!

- awesome, man! do you have location on your mind??

- well, me and wife are looking into Los Angeles and neighborhood, unsure yet..

- cool I come visit you!

- yeah you guys swing buy! We want to buy at least 4bd house, so there will be plenty of room for you to stay...

- okay see ya!

Meanwhile 2 days later on your Facebook feed:

Local Los Angeles realtor giving best tips for first time buyers...

If you buying in Cali you will be in shock about this one rule...

Learn about magic device this 60 year old used to built his own house in California.

California realtors are scary of this one website with top notch listings...

If you buying in Los Angeles you are overpaying not knowing about this law...

President Obama wants you to use first time buyers loan - click your State from the list below...

And so on...

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Post by cloud170 »

I think someone posted this on another thread somewhere (and sorry I could not dig it back up). With MongoLab and Google Cloud Platform, I literally just re-specified the Parse App ID and Keys and got the Parser server up and running in matter of minutes: https://cloud.google.com/nodejs/resources/frameworks/parse-s... Yes, with limitation on quite a few things now. But it's a good start.

Next thing to explore is how to scale this thing out.

Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by grandalf »

rcchen wrote: post #62
grandalf wrote: post #39

Wow. The 30 minutes you saved by using parse turns into a major headache. This makes me hesitant to use react and react-native.

Why? React and React Native are both pretty core to Facebook's main applications these days (all of Instagram is written in React, there's a smattering of components all over the main Facebook page, and multiple Facebook-written applications are written in React Native, including parts of the main Facebook app). In contrast, Parse was more of a dev-infrastructure product that didn't end up impacting developer relatio…

I love react and react-native ... this kind of announcement is scary though because Facebook is a big part of the ecosystem.
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