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Re: Backplane is shutting down

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Post by HEHENE »

gobengo wrote: post #9
all2 wrote: post #3

Earlier 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…

Backplane the social roller coaster was a different company.

Re: Backplane is shutting down

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Post by cpeterso »

gobengo wrote: post #9
all2 wrote: post #3

Earlier 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…

Backplane was also an internet services company founded by FreeBSD and DragonFly BSD developer Matt Dillon:

http://backplane.com/

Re: Backplane is shutting down

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Post by nine_k »

Cases like this make me always think very hard before admitting a closed-source / SaaS solution into the critical path of my stack.

In this regard, large established players have the benefit of the doubt when using a proprietary SaaS service: they are unlikely to fold, and if they sunset a product, they will likely give ample warning well ahead of time. (But not always even so: I see any new Google consumer product as a "while supplies last" sale.)

Re: Backplane is shutting down

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Post by mrkurt »

kodablah wrote: post #6

I 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?

Customers got emails a few days before this, and they're getting a lot of help. It's easy to criticize but I think they're handling it pretty well.

Re: Backplane is shutting down

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Post by bertjk »

I like the basic technical idea behind Backplane, which is that your backend servers "dial-out" and connect to the edge load balancers. Does anyone know why this technique is not used more? Or is it actually common but I just haven't heard of it? If so who/where is it actually done this way?

Re: Backplane is shutting down

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Post by smalter »

mrkurt wrote: post #24
kodablah wrote: post #6

I 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?

Customers got emails a few days before this, and they're getting a lot of help. It's easy to criticize but I think they're handling it pretty well.

you're the kind person helping me move from backplane to fly.io!

Re: Backplane is shutting down

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Post by mrkurt »

smalter wrote: post #26
mrkurt wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Customers got emails a few days before this, and they're getting a lot of help. It's easy to criticize but I think they're handling it pretty well.

you're the kind person helping me move from backplane to fly.io!

That's me!

Re: Backplane is shutting down

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Post by zalmoxes »

I'm neither an employee nor a customer, just someone who was following the project on twitter because it looked very intriguing. I just want to say that the comments on this thread are absolutely ridiculous and I expected better. Does anyone actually think the customers would find out at the last minute? That the company would leave its users without any support? It's baseless speculation and my guess is it's totally wrong. - The company is founded by Blake Mizerany https://twitter.com/bmizerany?lang=en an engineer known for Sinatra and a bunch of other well respected projects. - The users adopting an early stage startup's product are likely friends/former colleagues who are putting personal trust into the team. Does anyone really think nobody got a heads up, or possible support deals while they migrate?

Second, Backplane really looked like great tech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43wFJBRTHG0

Re: Backplane is shutting down

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Post by mrkurt »

bertjk wrote: post #25

I like the basic technical idea behind Backplane, which is that your backend servers "dial-out" and connect to the edge load balancers. Does anyone know why this technique is not used more? Or is it actually common but I just haven't heard of it? If so who/where is it actually done this way?

I love the idea of app servers tunneling out (we have an OSS project that does similar: https://github.com/superfly/wormhole). I really hope we get to where that's the default.
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