Parse is shutting down today • Hacker News Board

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by gfosco » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 9:49 PM UTC

throwaw181ay wrote: post #202

So we know there is a Go version somewhere I wonder why they didn't opensource this instead of rewriting everything to nodejs...

The backend for running half a million apps doesn't look anything like the backend for running a single app. Open-sourcing the actual Parse stack was not an option, and no one would've put in the effort to actually run the dozens of components involved. I started from scratch because that was the only way.

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by bdcravens » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 9:51 PM UTC

Mankhool wrote: post #68

GalyaTitova wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can use Parse Server Hosting providers such as sashido.io so you don't have to make many code changes.

Cool. Thanks! I already let all my data go, but it will be great to get my app going again.

Read the rest of this thread before you transfer there; you'll find that all the posts are by new users and were flagged. I won't say it's brigading, but use your own judgement to decide whether this comment was legit.

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by HectorRamos » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 9:53 PM UTC

throwaw181ay wrote: post #202

So we know there is a Go version somewhere I wonder why they didn't opensource this instead of rewriting everything to nodejs...

The hosted parse.com service is meant to support hundreds of thousands of apps. It was not really meant to be self-hosted by individual developers serving a couple of applications.

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by ebender001 » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 10:09 PM UTC

I don't have time to put a lot of energy into maintaining a backend. Parse server was a godsend, and it was so easy to use. Needless to say, I was horrified to learn a year ago of its shut down. Although I could roll my own Parse Server and mongoldb instance, I still did not have the time. I turned to SashiDo.io and its easy, seamless migration. Also, I was glad they were charging me a nominal fee. It shows that there is an income stream and, hopefully, this will mitigate against shut down like Parse.com. The help desk is quite helpful, also.

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by trumbitta2 » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 10:09 PM UTC

gfosco wrote: post #2

During this year-long shutdown/migration process, the open-source and community maintained Parse Server is what most people switched to. Parse is yours now. https://github.com/ParsePlatform/parse-server

And nowhere in there I was able to find what's Parse and what does the open-source Parse Server do.

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by ebender001 » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 10:09 PM UTC

I don't have time to put a lot of energy into maintaining a backend. Parse server was a godsend, and it was so easy to use. Needless to say, I was horrified to learn a year ago of its shut down. Although I could roll my own Parse Server and mongoldb instance, I still did not have the time. I turned to SashiDo.io and its easy, seamless migration. Also, I was glad they were charging me a nominal fee. It shows that there is an income stream and, hopefully, this will mitigate against shut down like Parse.com. The help desk is quite helpful, also.

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by Groxx » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 10:15 PM UTC

trumbitta2 wrote: post #215

gfosco wrote: post #2

During this year-long shutdown/migration process, the open-source and community maintained Parse Server is what most people switched to. Parse is yours now. https://github.com/ParsePlatform/parse-server

And nowhere in there I was able to find what's Parse and what does the open-source Parse Server do.

Huh. Yeah, I dove around a bit, browsed the wiki, etc, and so far all I've seen is the equivalent of "an open source version of the Parse backend". No description anywhere that I can see about what it does or why you should care (unless you're already on Parse, of course).

IIRC the Parse homepage used to have this, but ever since the shutdown notice (so, for the past year) the homepage has largely been useless.

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by nodamage » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 10:16 PM UTC

Can someone clarify: does this mean all older versions of apps that were dependent on Parse are now orphaned?

That is, even if you've released a new version of your app that uses the open source Parse Server, any of your users that haven't updated to the new version now essentially have a broken app?

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by Groxx » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 10:24 PM UTC

mtve wrote: post #204

reilly3000 wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Parse was a backend as a service that allowed for a cloud hosted database to be connected with web and mobile apps with simple JavaScript. It was a lovely tool for hackathons. They could also run arbitrary JS in response to events at scale. It competed with Firebase until they were acquired by Facebook.

It all makes me feel very stupid. I did programming since childhood and web since the beginning, I was clouds (virtualization) user even before millennium, I do backends for a living, saw a lot of JS code, know something about mobile apps, but I must join this thread. "Parse Server is an open source version of the Parse backend that can be deployed to any infrastructure that can run Node.js" - each of these words one…

"a cloud hosted database" + "run arbitrary JS in response to events at scale" covers most of it. It's a hosted database and server.

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by Myztiq » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 10:27 PM UTC

barnaclejive wrote: post #34

eriknstr wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Something I've been wondering is would you recommend using the open source Parse server for new code or is it more targeted towards projects that were already using the Parse API?

I have created a few apps using Parse.com, one of them successful enough to take the additional time/cost hit to migrate and host myself using the Parse-Server project. The open source project is great and I appreciate the effort that went into making sure we didn't all get (totally) screwed. Would I use Parse-Server for a new project? Probably not. The state of the BaaS options out there has changed/improved signifi…

I used to work at Kinvey, they've got a pretty good product geared towards integrating with whatever you've got to connect with. They have always been security conscious, even have HIPAA support now IIRC.

Happy to answer any questions, or get some current devs there into the conversation to help out.