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While I'm sure this sucks for a lot of people, I'll be honest the shutdown seems pretty fair. One year notice, detailed migration path with accompanying migrati

While I'm sure this sucks for a lot of people, I'll be honest the shutdown seems pretty fair. One year notice, detailed migration path with accompanying migration tools, and an open source release of the product itself. I didn't use parse, but this seems like a reasonable way to do it.

ineedtosleep 11y ago
Oh definitely. This is a fine example of how to do a service shutdown. Sadly, I await the comments from unprepared customers next year. If you make apps and use any sort of {P,B,S,I,}aaS, do you yourself a favor and follow/subscribe/whatever to their news/release channels.
- mooreds 11y ago
  Yes! I wrote about this a few years ago: http://geekestateblog.com/monitoring-microvendors/ http://geekestateblog.com/monitoring-microvendors/ It's really important as people build apps (and business value) through composition of smaller services rather than composition of code that they become aware of these external dependencies. And not just at build time, but during the operation of these apps/business processes.
- heraclez 11y ago
  I just received an email informing me of the shutdown
zem 11y ago
also major props for being up-front about the fact that they're shutting down the service and they realise it sucks for their users, rather than some "incredibly journey" style bs.
- mooreds 11y ago
  From the original post: > We have a difficult announcement to make. Yes, you can see their sheepishiness in the announcement. I'm sure it was a tough decision.
pashakym 11y ago
I hope we will see a lot of migrating tools and blogs
- argo12 11y ago
  We are working on this @Hasura.io. This is our blogpost in response to the Parse shutdown. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10994104 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10994104
saiprashanth93 11y ago
Is it an open source release of the core Parse product? I am genuinely curious, hence the question.Correct me if I am wrong, but this means that most of their product is the Parse server and whatever migration tools they used to store data for users.

ineedtosleep 11y ago

Oh definitely. This is a fine example of how to do a service shutdown. Sadly, I await the comments from unprepared customers next year. If you make apps and use any sort of {P,B,S,I,}aaS, do you yourself a favor and follow/subscribe/whatever to their news/release channels.

mooreds 11y ago
Yes! I wrote about this a few years ago: http://geekestateblog.com/monitoring-microvendors/ http://geekestateblog.com/monitoring-microvendors/ It's really important as people build apps (and business value) through composition of smaller services rather than composition of code that they become aware of these external dependencies. And not just at build time, but during the operation of these apps/business processes.
heraclez 11y ago
I just received an email informing me of the shutdown

zem 11y ago

also major props for being up-front about the fact that they're shutting down the service and they realise it sucks for their users, rather than some "incredibly journey" style bs.

mooreds 11y ago
From the original post: > We have a difficult announcement to make. Yes, you can see their sheepishiness in the announcement. I'm sure it was a tough decision.

pashakym 11y ago

I hope we will see a lot of migrating tools and blogs

argo12 11y ago
We are working on this @Hasura.io. This is our blogpost in response to the Parse shutdown. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10994104 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10994104

saiprashanth93 11y ago

Is it an open source release of the core Parse product? I am genuinely curious, hence the question.Correct me if I am wrong, but this means that most of their product is the Parse server and whatever migration tools they used to store data for users.