Re:Facebook is closing Parse
by bikamonki on Thursday January 28, 2016 @11:49PM
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You'll move that line eventually. Datacenters were a hard problem to solve a decade ago. Now its (almost) trivial. Virtual clouds were a buzzword less than two years ago. Now they are huge and successful businesses. Same path for BAAS.
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That's possible. But the current model of "give us money, use our code, and we'll host your data" is pretty clearly broken.
Why?
Doesn't seeing two of the most successful BaaS services get shut down after acquisition raise a red flag for you?
Yes of course but there may be other explanations other than 'a broken business model'.
Everything breaks at "host your data".
Any hosting/cloud service provider 'hosts your data'. I'm curious if you run your webservers in-house?
It's a different level of abstraction. They provide me with computers not data hosting. Theoretically they can have access to the software and the data on those computers but in practice they don't touch that and everything is completely in my control.