Does anyone know who made this video?
Amazon Cognito
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#22There's more information about AWS Cognito beginning at the 1:03:00 mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr6WirGn-6k
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#23Isn't there a startup that does this already? Seems way too intuitive and natural to not have happen already.
Yes. Firebase. I think Firebase is interesting because they focus on realtime data which is crucial for a lot of apps these days.
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#25Why would anyone outsource such a thing to another company/service?
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#26Did Amazon just change the name of the product that was topping HN yesterday?
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#27While this (and other similar) Backend-aaS look very appealing at first glance, it seems to suffer from the same problem as most AWS offerings - terrible platform lock-in. Show me that I could move all of this to another provider if I need to, and then we can talk seriously. I also wonder how they "manage[s] the complexity of conflict resolution" without manual intervention.
It's the same with almost every BaaS. Do you want your data? Pay for it.
That's why I always advocate for building your own backend, if you have a long-run plan and/or expect to generate a lot of data for the app.
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#28So, Amazon Parse? Looks like the big four (Apple, Google, Amazon, FB) all have to ahem...back(end) it up now.
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#29For those wary of vendor lock-in, or for those wanting a self-hosted similar service: Just yesterday I spun up my own oauth.io oauthd server. It's working out fairly well. It's only third-party authentication, it doesn't handle guest users or local authentication.
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#30Did Amazon just change the name of the product that was topping HN yesterday?
Did you even try reading the link?