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Re: Backplane is shutting down

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Post by all2 »

williamstein wrote: post #2

What 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

Re: Backplane is shutting down

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Post by marcinzm »

Two 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.

Re: Backplane is shutting down

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Post by kodablah »

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?

Re: Backplane is shutting down

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Post by tmikaeld »

marcinzm wrote: post #5

Two 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.

This seems like an all-in-one solution and quite complex, I highly doubt that this can be exchanged in a short time or maybe even at all...

I really feel bad for those who committed their company to this company.

Re: Backplane is shutting down

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Post by gobengo »

all2 wrote: post #3
williamstein wrote: post #2

What 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

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-box/

Re: Backplane is shutting down

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Post by marcinzm »

tmikaeld wrote: post #8
marcinzm wrote: post #5

Two 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.

This seems like an all-in-one solution and quite complex, I highly doubt that this can be exchanged in a short time or maybe even at all... I really feel bad for those who committed their company to this company.

Yeah, definitely not fun for those impacted.

In my eyes it's evidence that you definitely shouldn't bet your company on a startup unless you have a backup plan that you can implement quickly or the benefits are massive (ie: the reward is worth potentially losing your business). Larger companies also kill products but they tend to give a lot more heads up.

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