Facebook is closing Parse

Re:Facebook is closing Parse by zachlatta on Thursday January 28, 2016 @11:22PM (#10993476)

Ran into the exact same issue when using Parse. I was working on an app that operated primarily through push notifications. The push notification downtime was horrible -- I remember having to get on calls with clients apologizing profusely for the downtime. We were also paying Parse an absurd amount of money for extra reliability, which didn't seem to help much.

I never heard people talking about the difficulty of moving off of Parse, especially in mobile clients that were developed with the Parse SDK. I spent a ridiculous amount of time getting Parse synced with our custom backend so old clients wouldn't break.

Final thing: debuggin. For nearly any issue, a half-assed solution---often not usable in production---by one of their staff was buried deep into their forums. Super painful.

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Re:Facebook is closing Parse by jonsterling on Thursday January 28, 2016 @11:53PM (#10993576)

Exactly, exactly, exactly!

> We were also paying Parse an absurd amount of money for extra reliability, which didn't seem to help much.

We were also hooked into the same scam!

> For nearly any issue, a half-assed solution---often not usable in production---by one of their staff was buried deep into their forums. Super painful.

Haha, well put. They always directed people to their pathetic "support forum", where one of their staff would propose a criminally bad "solution" to a problem, which no self-respecting engineer could even sanction putting into production.

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