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We're already seeing the rise of backend as a service through products like Disqus, Video/youtube, and google analytics. If you're looking for problems to solve

• aespinoza 13y ago
  I wouldn't consider any platform that exposes an API a Backend as a Service. I do understand where you are coming from, but Backend as a Service providers are more like iKnode, Parse, Kinvey and Firebase.
  • camus 13y ago
    i found Baas really hard to test , especially when you need to upload some bits of business logic somewhere ... I tried a bit with couchdb and couchapp, but i never figured out how to unit tests attached documents. Parse works a bit the same way. How do you do testing on Baas ?
    • aespinoza 13y ago
      On iKnode you can test your backend with simple Javascript Unit Tests. We have a sample in our Javascript SDK: https://github.com/Structum/iKnodeSdk/tree/master/Javascript https://github.com/Structum/iKnodeSdk/tree/master/Javascript What you do is you create your Backend App in iKnode like this one: https://github.com/Structum/iKnodeSdk/blob/master/Javascript/UserService.cs.txt https://github.com/Structum/iKnodeSdk/blob/master/Javascript... Then you write your Unit Tests in Javascript like in here: https://github.com/Structum/iKnodeSdk/blob/master/Javascript/UnitTests/iKnodeSdkTest.js https://github.com/Structum/iKnodeSdk/blob/master/Javascript... You can also run any other Unit Test framework against iKnode, for example we have: - C# with Microsoft Unit Test:https://github.com/Structum/iKnodeSdk/tree/master/C%23 https://github.com/Structum/iKnodeSdk/tree/master/C%23 - Objective-C with Unit Tests: https://github.com/Structum/iKnodeSdk/tree/master/Objective-C https://github.com/Structum/iKnodeSdk/tree/master/Objective-...
• zizee 13y ago
  That's exactly the thought process behind my latest application. I was sick of writing/polishing the same authentication / payment processing functionality, so I made it into a service (that utilises itself no less).