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s_m
on March 23, 2020
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Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business?
I am kind of amazed the author didn't mention Parse once.
barbecue_sauce
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I was exposed to Parse, but was it ever widely used/popular?
gfosco
on March 24, 2020
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It's still actively developed.
https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server
asciimike
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Yes, it was a fairly popular BaaS offering during 2014-2016
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=parse-platfor...
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It was definitely popular. It used to be the go to solution on r/AndroidDev for people wanting a simple backend solution without having much experience. Everyone switched to Google Firebase after Facebook shut it down.
cameronfraser
on March 23, 2020
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Why? The discussion is about IaaS not SaaS
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