Facebook is closing Parse

Re:Facebook is closing Parse by chatmasta on Thursday January 28, 2016 @05:59PM (#10992160)

I don't understand why Facebook never integrated Parse into its own datacenter infrastructure. As far as I can tell, Parse still hosts all of its infrastructure on EC2 (DNS lookups for every Parse service point to an EC2 IP address). Hosting on EC2 made sense when Parse was an independent company, but didn't they sell to Facebook so they could benefit from Facebook infrastructure?

This seems like Facebook throwing in the towel on what seemed like a good plan to gain a foothold in the cloud space.

Either that, or they're not really shutting down, and they just want to get a bunch of free labor from open source developers before migrating to an enterprise support business model.

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Re:Facebook is closing Parse by adrr on Thursday January 28, 2016 @07:57PM (#10992750)

Isn't Instagram still using AWS for some of their infrastructure? They had a big blog post about moving but if i remember correctly there was article about instagram getting hacked via S3 bucket keys a couple months back.

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Re:Facebook is closing Parse by rizjoj on Thursday January 28, 2016 @06:04PM (#10992205)

I always suspected that Facebook's purchasing of Parse was an aquihire. (I've used Parse from 2012-2013)

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Re:Facebook is closing Parse by wkoszek on Thursday January 28, 2016 @09:39PM (#10993144)

You mean main FB data-centers? The reason can be as simple as security standards used in both services may not be compatible.

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