Wow. If I were a user, I'd hate to have this dropped on me today. Christmas eve is in 10 days and your traffic is about to stop routing in 15 days.
Backplane is shutting down
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#12What is Backplane? Why is it shutting down?
> Backplane is a service that unifies discovery, routing, and load balancing for web servers written in any language, running in any cloud or datacenter. Traffic shaping, request enrichment, blue/green deploys, and other difficult to implement networking operations become trivial when using Backplane's combination of hosted and on-premise software. From their docs page here: https://www.backplane.io/docs
So cause of death is "Eaten by Amzn"?
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#13I understand not wanting to appear on "our incredible journey" blog or whatever with a bunch of sap, but surely more information can be made public without everyone emailing? Why shutting down? Why only a couple of weeks? Will the code be open sourced?
Open source would be very interesting to me (at least). Looking at their GitHub, it appears only some minor components are currently open : https://github.com/backplane
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#14Is this the same company that at one point was making social networks for celebrities?
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#15They couldn't wait till after new years to do this?
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#16Two week notice during the holiday season seems pretty sudden and painful for users. I feel bad for those who now have to scramble and probably miss time with their families as a result.
Customers have options, scramble or not. My sympathy is with the staff, sorry "teammates" (per the webpage). It's a lousy time of year to be out of work.
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#17What is Backplane? Why is it shutting down?
> Backplane is a service that unifies discovery, routing, and load balancing for web servers written in any language, running in any cloud or datacenter. Traffic shaping, request enrichment, blue/green deploys, and other difficult to implement networking operations become trivial when using Backplane's combination of hosted and on-premise software. From their docs page here: https://www.backplane.io/docs
Wow. What a nightmare to shut down just before Christmas.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Backplane is a service that unifies discovery, routing, and load balancing for web servers written in any language, running in any cloud or datacenter. Traffic shaping, request enrichment, blue/green deploys, and other difficult to implement networking operations become trivial when using Backplane's combination of hosted and on-premise software. From their docs page here: https://www.backplane.io/docs
In the last ten years I have also seen 'backplane' be: * A protocol for helping web widgets on a page communicate and share data https://openid.net/wg/bp/ . We used to support it at Livefyre to interop with certain Janrain products, but the ecosystem wasn't so big at the time. It wasn't under OpenID at the time. * This roller coaster of a social network startup https://techcrunch.com/2015/03/06/the-backplane-black-bo…
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#19Is this the same company that at one point was making social networks for celebrities? https://techcrunch.com/2013/02/03/backplane/
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#20Is this the same company that at one point was making social networks for celebrities? https://techcrunch.com/2013/02/03/backplane/
No, different people entirely.