‘Facebook Is Shutting Down Parse’ – ReadWrite
Owen Thomas says, “What went wrong?
Most observers are scratching their heads over the surprising announcement that Facebook is winding down Parse, the app-hosting service it bought in 2013 as part of a larger effort to woo mobile developers.
Developers will have a year to move their apps off of Facebook’s servers, and can download a version of Parse’s software to run on top of a Node.js server—likely hosted on erstwhile Parse rivals like Salesforce’s Heroku or Amazon Web Services.
A Move That’s Hard To Parse
The move comes after an exceptionally busy year for Parse. Facebook had made Parse the centerpiece of its revived F8 developer conference and expanded it to the Internet of Things“.
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