Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business?

Re:Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business? by Abishek_Muthian on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @01:18AM (#22672190)

Killing of Parse definitely showed that Facebook didn't want to be in PaaS/IaaS. Now, there's going to be severe trust issues with any PaaS/IaaS with a Facebook branding.

Parse was ahead of its time, good Engineering, nice documentations and possible the first platform to make building backend/database system for an app seamless. Even when Facebook killed it, they did a great job at open-sourcing the platform.[1]

I had migrated my existing services to open-source Parse and even built a stateless application with >250,000 users with it few years back. But if I had to build the same backend now, I'll probably do it with Go/pgSQL instead of NodeJS/MongoDB as in Parse.

[1]https://parseplatform.org/

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Re:Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business? by mst on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @08:49AM (#22674379)

I mean, yes, but also a reputation for killing things off hasn't entirely stopped people from using GCP.

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Re:Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business? by Abishek_Muthian on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @09:33AM (#22674655)

I should have been more clearer, FB's reputation loss is not just from killing things!

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Re:Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business? by weare138 on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @02:18PM (#22677195)

Honestly this was the first thing I thought when I read the headline. No one using enterprise cloud services is going to trust Facebook with their data and mission critical systems.

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Re:Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business? by lowdose on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @09:23PM (#22681067)

Well Google has invested more than $30 billion in the could last 3 years. This wait until Google is going to pull the plug is getting a bit annoying. I welcome the competition with AWS.

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