Re:Facebook is closing Parse
by akarve on Friday January 29, 2016 @10:51AM
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painful. though more an indictment of parse than BaaS. the firebases of the world seem to work better. 20/20 hindsight, when should you have gotten off of parse and why didn't it happen?
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Re:Facebook is closing Parse
by jonsterling on Friday January 29, 2016 @11:32AM
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I don't think I'm allowed go go into details based on a contract that I signed, so I will just say "we should have got off it earlier".
Hey I'm not sure what contract you're referring to, but from a Parse point of view I think you should feel free to go into details about what didn't scale for you about Parse. There is definitely a tradeoff between "ease of use" and "ease of scaling" in many places and using a "backend as a service" won't be the right thing for everyone. I would rather that people be honest and open about what works well and what doesn't.
Re:Facebook is closing Parse
by jonsterling on Saturday January 30, 2016 @01:18PM
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Hey there—I've done my best to be as honest and up-front about my experience with Parse. (I apologize if it has seemed overly harsh; but it ate its way into many different parts of my life and really made my year difficult.)
But I can't really go into much detail about what we did at our company and why we did it, because when I left, I took a severance on certain terms. And in any case, it's not really appropriate to drudge up old arguments, and I have no interest in making comments that might make it more difficult for the people I worked with to do what they want to do now.