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Today is full of irony. This morning Adobe announced that they were shutting down Flash for mobile (vendor lock-in): Everyone praising. This afternoon, we hav
by pothibo 15y ago
Today is full of irony.
This morning Adobe announced that they were shutting down Flash for mobile (vendor lock-in): Everyone praising.
This afternoon, we have Parse that raises 5.5M$ (More vendor lock-in): Most people praising.
To me, Parse sounds like an utopia. It does look very promising and the premise is very interesting. However, what happens if you need to move to some other backend (If you hit an Instagr.am's hockey puck growth for example)?
If you want analytics on your backend?
How about if you need to moderate some of your content?
Lots of black magic and while you can just switch a DNS entry on heroku, you can't do so on Parse...
- lacker 15y agoA couple notes. Analytics and content moderation are possible right now through the REST API - we have developers using the API for both of those in fact. https://www.parse.com/docs/rest https://www.parse.com/docs/rest You can also moderate content manually through the data browser. As far as scalability goes, our team has a lot of experience designing web-scale products. We're designing Parse from the ground up to scale. If anyone has an application that they're concerned how Parse can handle the load, we're glad to chat about it - just drop us a line at feedback@parse.com.